PLANTING OF TREES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 47, 25 February 1939, Page 8

PLANTING OF TREES

WANGANUI’S RED GUMS PRAISED ADVICE TO NEW ZEALAND WOMEN Addressing the members of (he Wanganui Women’s Club yesterday, Mrs. T. H. Lowry, president of the Hastings Women’s Club and Dominion president of the New Zealand Red Cross Society, appealed to women’s clubs and kindred associations to plant trees and to encourage a sense of beauty and realism in life. Mrs, Lowry* h.«as just returned from a trip abroad and she was impressed with the energy of people, particularly women, in California, where miles upon miles of trees hau been planted. She said that in New Zealand people were inclined to grumble and do nothing to make conditions better, while in some countries she had visited the women did things and were more energetic. Bridge and golf were all right in their proper places, but the world needed women who were capable in the ways of life generally. It was her opinion that people in the lower strata of society were making better of their talents. Warw.nui’s red gums appealed to Mrs. Lowry, and she said them should be more of them. She spoke of the wonderful memorial trees of Japan and California. "We take things too easily in New Zealand and we grumble about things that, do not go well,” Mrs Lowry said. 'We do not bother like the Californ\n, who is keen to irrigate lands and care for trees. There is no reason why oranges should not be grown more widely in New Zealand.” The Californians had to be admired for what they had don? with sandy wastes of country.

“Let us grow more beautiful trees in New Zea hand.” Mrs. Lowry urged. “Never mind what the menfolk say about pines. They do not seem to think of anything beyond pines when it comes to trees.”

WANGANUI BECOMING TREE CONSCIOUS

'YORK ON ROADS AND ELSEWHERE.

Women's organisations in Wanganui, particularly the Women's Institutes, are alive to the need for more tree planting, as advocated by Mrs. Lowry. Mr. T. Dix, engineer to the Waitotara County Council, in cooperation with the Maxwell Women's Institute, for instance, has done a great deal of planting along the main north road. The suggestion of Mr. Hope Gibbons, of the Wanganui Beautifying Society, that an avenue of trees be planted along the main road from Wellington to Auckland has not been lost sight of. It is generally admitted, however, judging by the opinions of several people interviewed yesterday, that there is a greater need for activity than has been shown so far. Although the city is becoming tree conscious, much remains to be done to develop that consciousness to the high influence it wields in other countries of the world.