ARBOR DAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1941, Page 4

ARBOR DAY

CELEBRATION ON WEDNESDAY. PLANTING AT CENTRAL SCHOOL. Arbor Day is to be celebrated this year on Wednesday. At the Masterton Central School, on assembly the children will be addressed on the significance of Arbor Day and. their lessons for the day will be linked up with tree-planting. Every class will plant flowering apples in the school grounds during the day, two dozen trees having been donated to the school by the Masterton Beautifying Society. Flowering apples will also be planted at the Lansdowne School. PLANTING AT COLLEGE. Although no Arbor Day ceremony is being observed at Wairarapa College this year, much planting has been carried out this season. The Principal, Mr G. G. Hancox, stated, this morning that it was found that the first Wednesday in August was too late for planting on the College grounds, where planting was necessary at least a month earlier. A fair amount of planting had been carried cut this season, he said, some of it by the pupils. The line of trees around the main playing fields had been completed, flowering apples planted along the Cornwall Street entrance and the line limes on the Renall Street entrance had been extended to College House. Native trees had also been planted out.