TREE PLANTING.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1544, 27 May 1882, Page 4

TREE PLANTING.

Thk Tiniaru Herald in writing on tho subject of the great drought in Victoria thus concludes a sensible article : —But Aye miibt not be phai isaical on this subject. New Zealand lias not yet suffered from drought in the same measure as Australia, or any similar measure. But our time will come if we go on much longer as we are going. lii many parts of the colony the destruction of the forests has already produced a' marked change for the worrie in tlie climate, and as that destruction is still 1 gojmg on unchecked, it is impossible that we can long escape. It is true there is a certain amount of planting being done ; but what is it after all ? The damage that is done by destroying the native forests in a single year to more than can be repaired by fifty years' growth of artifical plantations. It is a crying sin that our Government take no steps for stopping this wanton Vaste. 'Years hence, when/we have a Minister of Water Supply,' as'the^y have 'in Victoria, and whtett his , Office is besieged' with applications ! for water tanks or condensing machines".'to relieve' the necessities of tlie psfmle,! „'our public 'men will look back''with'. 1 sorrow and shame to the time when* they atlpjve'd. the,natural reservoirs pf the',country to be\ 'recklessly 'annihilated', 'hi spite' of thei most earnest remonstrances and the 1 most serious warnings. - '