TREE HERITAGE 



both, and they were glad to hand their oars back to the 

 boys. For two and a half days we continued without 

 stopping except for a few minutes twice a day. We 

 reached Nimule in record time and after a trek of 

 ninety-five miles across country caught the Nile steamer 

 at Rajaff. 



When I returned to London I carried a message of 

 greeting to the Chief Boy Scouts from The Men of the 

 Trees, which at the request of the Dominion Secretary 

 I broadcasted from Marconi House, and from that time 

 onward increasing interest has been shown in Forest 

 Conservation and Tree-Planting. Later I started teach- 

 ing by Radio and gave the first talk on trees. I con- 

 cluded by saying that if any boys and girls cared to 

 write essays I would correct them and mention the 

 name of the best essay writer the following week. The 

 result was that thousands of essays arrived and a special 

 staff had to be detailed to cope with them. The experi- 

 ment was at once voted to be a success and from then 

 onwards teaching by radio has continued. Amongst the 

 many essays there was one that came to my notice writ- 

 ten by a small child from the county of Essex. With 

 it she sent a covering letter which ran something like 

 this: 



"Dear Sir, 



"I live in a small village in Essex. There are only fifty 

 children in vty village and on hot days Teacher lets us 

 sit in the boy's porch. This afternoon we had the loud 



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