TREES FOR FARMERS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 31 May 1917, Page 3

TREES FOR FARMERS.

With a view to encouraging farmers to plant trees for shelter, forest plantations, post timber, firewood, and other purposes on their farms, the Forestry Branch of the Land Department is now prepared to supply suitable trees for farmers who wish to improve their farms in the manner referred to. In the North Island applications for trees should be made to the Superintending Nurseryman at Whakarewarewa, who will supply pricelists and other particulars.

The Rangiora Standard says :—r" It is related of the wayward poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon, that on one occasion he performed a feat of horsemanship which, few riders are capable of doing. Riding a horse at a fast paca, Gordon carried a ' basket' of water in one hand and took a fence with ease without spilling a drop." Now what sort of a basket was it ?