C.--1B

Statement showing Cost of Operations (with Value oj Work done In/ Prison Labour treated us on Expenditure). For Year. To Date. I s. (I. £ s. (I. Total expenditure.. .. .. 3.201 0 II 1."..085 12 8 Value of prison labour .. .. .. 1.750 5 o 24,076 0 9 1.051 5 II .",8.061 I.", 5 Deduct cost of fencing, roads, buildings, &c. .. 1.773 0 0 7.254 10 0 3. 177 16 II :;n.807 2 8 Add proportion of cost of fencing, roads. buildings. &c. .. ..' .. 37 116 II 2,005 ■"• •". Cost of planting 811 acres and maintaining 6.265 acres . . . . . . . . £3, 552 13 10 Cost of planting and maintaining 6,265 acres .. .. £32,812 5 II Average cost of planting and maintaining Per acre . . . . . . £4 3 8 £5 10 Per 1.000 trees .. 10 8 2 0 2

Return of Tree-planting Work done at Waiotapu Plantation, 1911-12.

* Trial lots. t For wind-break on ELaingaroa Plains. Summary of Trees planted. Hew used. Number. Numbers on plantation at present day Contents of numbered blocks .. .. .. .. 16.270.863 On fire-breaks .. .. .. .. .. 11.367 Ornamental and shelter trees at orison camps .. .. 36.936 Experimental trees.. .. .. .. .. 1.488 Total trees now living .. .. .. .. .. 16.320.654 Number used to replace failures, &c.— Leguminous plants used as bait for rabbits and hares . . . . I .125 Ornamental trees destroyed by rabbits and bares .. .. 16.000 Experimental trees not suited to district .. .. .. 757.214 Used to replace deaths .. .. .. .. .. 1.787.893 18.883,186 Less trees raised from seed in situ . . .. .. 83,121 Trees received from nursery .. .. .. .. 18.800,065

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Hock. Name i>1 Tree. Number on Now Replacing Area. Blanks. lit 18 17 16 15 I I 15 L6 IT 17 20 12 15 L5 15 15 15 L5 15 15 I , inns I,,ii Kin Liirix europaea PinuH st minis ponderoea var. acopulorum teooote Jeffreyii Coulterii* resinosa* Lambertiana (lupressus thurifera Thuja plicata I , inns radiataf 733,475 '.W.250 1.178.950 -2.875 17.025 11.575 20.450 7.125 10.300 72.(175 2.300 .'3.050 I . 000 20.075 300 9.650 150 282,750 125.000 7.875 1,476 3,000 2,950 300 50 100 too 300 2.000 2.394.400 251.925 2,646,325