At the Waiotapu and Waipa Valley prison camps and Hamner Springs prison over three and a half million trees were planted during last year, in addition to the general work of preparing the ground, digging pits, new buildings, and additions and alterations. The system of utilising prison labour for tree-planting, states the report, has now passed beyond the experimental stage, and must be admitted to be a humane and rational method of giving prisoners a chance to alter their mode of life. The work has both a moral and an economic value. Many of our tree-planters do not come back again, while the result of their work is seen in the gradual change that is coming over the face of the country in which their operations are carried on.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 881, 20 August 1910, Page 2
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129Untitled Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 881, 20 August 1910, Page 2
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