CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2821, 13 February 1888, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

MR CHARLES PHARAZYN.

(To the Editor),

Fir,-I notice a local in your last week's issue that Mr 0. Pharazyn lias been asked to come forward as candidate for the Education Board. I qnito agree with you that tlw cause of education would benefit by MrPharazyn's presence on the Board. I hope this is not the only appointment that gentleman will aspire to, hut that be may fill a much higher position. As onn who has opposed Mr Pharazyn in times past, I am all the more sincere in hoping that he may become a successful public man. After having had a sad experience of '' men's friends" and other politicalWrnbugs, I have learnt from bitter experience the difference between brass and gold, I mistook these demagogues to be the true metal, but was woefully mistaken, and now cheerfully acknowledgeWiat men of Mr Pharazyn's stamp are the men out of which good emanates, There is a discussion going on at the present titue as to the advisability of bo altering the Parliamentary representation system as to extend the area of districts to the boundaries of the old provinces, If this were dons there is no doubt a man of Mr Pharazyn's ability and genuineness would obtain a seat in Parliament and nome' of tho political humbugs who now have seats would be left in the cold to tho great benefit of the country at large,, although lam happy to say there is nothing to be said against your present members.

I am tic., Colonial. Wellington, Feb. 10, tiff

Tree Planting.

(To the Editor)

Sir.—ln your leader of Saturday last, yon, most opportunely, 'called attention to the tree Anting, to, in a measure, counterbalance the effect on. our climate caused by the wholesale) destruction of the native bush, Science has proved that tho cultivation of trees and shrubs exercises a most benign influence on the climate, as well as on the health of any country. We know that there is a much greater rainfall in bush country than on the plains devoid of. bush j we. know that rain falls much ofiener in the Forty Mile Bush than it does in Masterton; ws know tlmt the Maoris , and also Europeans, a few years back, grew valuable crops - of radons etc,, which they cannot grow np and all becnusa the atmosphere lacks that humidity, and those other ameliorating conditions which bush or judicious treeplanting supplies. The aridity of this inland district will very soon equal portions of inland Australia if a judicious system o{ forwt coiwmtiof],

and management is not adopted, Australian colonies, deeming it of national importance, expend large sums of money yearly on forest conservation and trceplanting. In South there aro largo tree-rearing jHtablishments in various parts of the colony where native trees are grown from seed for forest planting and for freu distribution to the colonists in districts devoid of bush, and many bleak and barren hills and waste lands are now covered by thriving plantations. Thus, the adjoining lands have . become moio fertile and valuable, and tm. food production of the colonras, slowly but smxly being You, air, instanced the productiveness of sheltered lauds over the unsheltered, and wailo settlers are continually currying on a warfare of extermination with the bush, they are fully alive to the importance of the shelter derived from trees when properly arranged on the exposed parts of their lan<is, or around their homesteads, Therefore, if we wish to maintain an tquablu and healthy climate .to w must, wliilo clearing away forest to - $ enable settlement, institute a judicious system of treeplanting, I am i'O. An Ex-Australian,