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Otago Witness, Issue 4033, 30 June 1931, Page 25

On the completion of the present work at Balmoral and Eyrewell, the New Zealand State Forest Service will have finished the planting of all the areas now available to it in Canterbury, aggregating more than 50.000 acres. Whether the planting will be continued next year is still uncertain, for then more land .will have to be purchased at a cost which the Government is, perhaps, not at present in a position to meet. The planting of these 50,000 acres had been spread over a period of 30 years. The chief plantations are at Balmoral, Eyrewell, and Hanmer, although there are several smaller areas in different parts of North and South Canterbury. The risks, run by pedestrians in these days of motor transport are often referred to in jest and in earnest, but it has been left to Invercargill to produce a new danger from motor traffic (says the Southland Times). A woman who was pushing a cycle along Dec street had just passed the buses parked near Esk street when a car rolled past and something struck her instep. . The missile proved to be a nail, which had apparently been picked from the street by the wheel of the car and projected through the air in the direction of the passer-by. The nail pierced the instep behind the toe joint for over half an inch, and the victim of the accident, has not since been able to use the foot.