EUCALYPTUS TREES. 2. 
in each district some fertile, sheltered valleys, readily 
accessible to good lines of traffic, to be selected, where, 
from springs, or rivulets, water could be obtained for 
inexpensive irrigation, in order to reserve such spots 
for forest nurseries before they are all alienated from 
the Crown. The transit of the miilions of seedlings 
needed for-forest plantations, from remote spots, would 
not only be one of enormous and unnecessary expend-~ 
iture, but, in the many instances of evergreen and 
even some deciduous trees, it would be next to impos- 
sible to convey living plants for long distances, The 
union of Forest Boards to Road Boards or Shire Coun- 
cils I regard inadvisable, because their scope of action 
is so different. The predilections of a member of a 
municipality will often be in building operations and 
kindred objects, while for culture processes he may 
have neither inclination nor experience, It is never 
wise to burden too heavy responsibilities on a few 
honorary administrators, whose leisure in this youth- 
ful country, where so much work is yet under the 
first or early process of creating, is almost sure to be 
but limited. 
But there are instances in which—as, indeed, a 
thoughtful legislator has suggested —the Mining 
Boards might exercise, in their vicinity, supervision 
also over the woods. On many professional ques- 
tions, such as the renovation of forests, the best util- 
ization of their products, the increase of their riches, 
I would, myself, very gladly afford advice, and thus 
maintain a consulting position to the Forest Boards ; 
for, need I add, it has ever been my aim to serve, as 
far as it was within my means, the best interests of 
my fellow-colonists ; and while official responsibility 
