“Or course the unspoilt primeval vegelation of high country is the best safeguard against erosion." states Captain Sanderson, president of the Forest, and Bird Protection Society, "but if that covering has been removed by timber-milling or by tire, the next best procedure is the replacing of the vegetalional covering of the denuded areas with the species of native plants which flourished there previously. Nature had evolved the best covering in relation to soil and climate. Any departure from Nature's successful scheme is asking for trouble. It is very saddening to see in some hilly places the gloomy stands of alien pines on land which could have been indefinitely better used for the planting of native trees" t
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1940, Page 6
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