Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical. SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1892. ARBOR DAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4166, 16 July 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical. SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1892. ARBOR DAY.

Government has recently proclaimed a National Arbor Day in New Zealand. The Department of Agriculture has in sequence issued a pamphlet of intimation and instruction which we in part re-produce. Thursday, the 4th day of August next, is the occasion which is to be observed as a public holiday in all public offices throughout the Colony, for the planting of trees and shrubs in suitable public places and reserves and in private grounds, and for the observance of such ceremonies or demonstrations as are suitable to the general character of the occasion, The residents of Masterton, therefore, in common with those in other towns, have been asked to celebrate the day in the manner indicated. The intention is to make the movement a colonial one, The importance of promoting forest.growth, the culture of trees, and their preservation at all stages should command the interest of every resident in the Colony, and it is hoped that the Education Boards and teachers and pupils of our schools will take an especially active part in the proceedings of the day. By the annual celebration of Arbor., Day it is sought to make each colonist understand bow important the care of! our forests has already become, owing to the wholesale destruction of timbertrees wbioh has been going on lor! many years past in all parts of the Colony. This Colony has special cause to regret the lack of trees in many districts, and to deplore-like the gt&te of Colorado—the "feckless stripping of forests from hills and mountnk-sides, and the consequent diminishing siijpph/of iyatfl'r ip mapy streams. "

This movement of Arbor Day cel.e ? bration has for years past been taken up by the people of tbo United States, with ihe greatest enthusiasm, and also in Queensland and other neighbouring colonics; and a start lias already been made in some parts of this Colony, ft ppVy. now remains for those in authority jto take the matter up to insure as great a result, comparatively speaking, as hasalready been achieved throughout the States in America,