ARBOR DAY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4864, 12 August 1925, Page 2

ARBOR DAY.

CELEBRATION IN PAEROA. PLANTINGS BY SCHOOL CHILDREN Arbour Day was celebrated at tlie Paeroa District High School in a practical way yesterday when approximately two hundred trees were planted by the children of the High School and of standards 4,5, and 6, and the teachers 1 of the school. , A permanent record is being kept, so that in the future each person will know the actual tree planted by him, or her, and one tree in particular, that planted by Miss Shaw, will always be of special interest to the children.

.The Forestry Department, on the recommendation of Mr L. W. McCaskill, agricultural instructor for the district, donated fifty Oppresses Lawsonianas, which will remain in the School nursery for another year; fifty Douglas Fir, or (Oregon Pines, thirtyeight of which have been planted as a shelter belt in the Domain at the back of the Defence Office area, and about twenty miscellaneous trees, of interesting types, planted in various parts ot the school 1 grounds. In a triangular portion of the domain area have been planted one hundred and twenty-eight specimens of six different varieties of euealypts, recommended by forestry expert bf being the most valuable and best suited to the district.

These are E. engenioides, E. botryoides, E’. saligna, E. MacArthurii, E. Gunnii, and E. viminalis. These eucalypti have all been raised from seed in the school nunsery by the pupils of the high school, and it is hoped that in the future they will be an asset to the domain and of special interest to the farmers of the district. It is noteworthy that the eucalypt most commonly planted in former years was the ordinary blue gum, considered by experts to be the most likely to suffer from scale, which has' ruined plantation after plantation in the South Island.