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Otaki Mail, 8 March 1922, Page 2

The Conservator of Forests, State Forest Service, Rotorua, is circularising county councils suggesting a means by which they may ensure their luture supply of timber for bridges, culverts and other purposes, and more economically than under the present system. The suggestion is that the councils plant suitable trees on small coiners, reseives, steep roadfaces, and other places where small plantations ol valuable timber trees could be grown and which would not require much fencing to keep out wandering stock. Occasional attention, as long as is necessary, could be given by employees in the course of their work in the vicinity of the plantations. Such, areas, stocked with well-selected species, might possibly assure the council's ordinary needs in perpetuity, besides having an aesthetic value wliicTT Would he appisolated by most ratepayers.

Twenty years ago Londoners, proud of the size of the city and the dimensions ol its traffic, used to point to the fact that Clapham Junction was the busiest railway station in the world—on an average a train a minute passed through it. Now that record is“doubled at the Underground station at Effrl’s Court, where 120 trams an hour pass through dunnf the rush hours (according to Everyday Science; and at Charing Cross, with its three underground stations in one, there are often four and on an average three trains a minute. Twenty years ago, again, there were no motor omnibuses, and the horse omnibuses were but a fraction of Ihslr number. During the business hours to-day 640 omnibuses pass Charing Cross in the hour, 566 pass the Bank, 542 pass Oxford Circus, and 5W pass Piccadilly Circus. Omnibuses arid underground trains carry- 4.000.0 W passengers a day. The population has increased less iKSfi 20 per cent since the beginning of the century, but for every journey in bus’ tram, train' or cab made theft,’ between ?0 and 40 are made"to-day.