400 TREES PLANTED
KAPONGA PLAN ACHIEVED ADDRESS BY MINISTER The importance of trees to the Dominion was stressed by the Minister of Supply, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, yesterday, when addressing children at an official planting of trees at the primary schools' centennial memorial plantation at Kaponga. More than 400 native trees were planted on an area provided by the Kaponga Town Board, the trees having been reared by school children in the surrounding districts. A welcome was extended to Mr. Sullivan by the chairman of the Kaponga Town Board. Mr. A. R. Bates, and he was welcomed to the electorate by Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, M.P. Lasting Memorial. The scheme was explained by Mr. R. Syme, instructor in agriculture for the Taranaki Education Board, who said that three years ago it was agreed that each school in the Kaponga district should grow trees to be planted as the schools' commemoration of the centenary of New Zealand. The area planted at Kaponga would be a suitable and lasting memor.ial to which the Kaponga. Kapuni, Auroa, Riverlea. Awatuna. Te Kiri and Mangatoki schools would have contributed trees. More than 800 trees were grown in the school plots, but there was sufficient room for only 400 trees, said Mr. Syme. The trees not planted were to be returned to the schools and held for planting next year. when it was hoped additional ground would be available. Appreciation of the action of the Kaponga Town Board in making the area available, and of the Minister in at-
tending the ceremony was expressed by Mr. Syme. The ground was made available for a purpose which the board would never forget. Importance of Trees. Apologising for the absence of the Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, who was to have attended the ceremony, Mr. Sullivan said that the planting of trees inspired in the minds of people an appreciation of trees. An understanding of trees was a very important matter indeed. Once New Zealand was covered with trees but later men started to cut them by the millions without intelligent them down. and in many cases burn thought. on the matter. The long time that a tree took to grow and the brief period required to destroy years of growth was referred to b.y Mr. Sullivan. who added that in recent years efforts were being made to repair this damage by the planting of hundreds of acres of trees. He appealed to the children to play their part in the afforestation policy of the country, and to maintain it when they became of age and accepted their responsibility in guiding the affairs of the country and the province. "The future welfare of the country depends upon the forests, which are important from every point of view," declared Mr. Sullivan, who planted a tree which. he said. should in future be known' as the "Dan Sullivan tree."
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1940, Page 6
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