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gay thoag!i fjrast laalsciiajt affsct 

 eosmie eaaseg, tlisy «ra gaffisieat to Sara 

 the baltaca wkea eonditiaaa ot cdadsa- 

 satiaaare aoprasckad, to catuse raio. to 

 fall toeiHy waaca othsr^iss ifc woali b« 

 jmt missal. This iaEtisaca oa cUiBite 

 thaoretically hsld, has baaa ope i to 

 dispata ; bafe c4Fa£al obsofvatiois at 

 maty statioas la Eacopa are qqw sho^ia^ 

 a steady iaerea 18 of raiafall ia propor- 

 tioaas forests araeacaarogfd. 



Bat, hoarerer, these mjre gaaeral ia- 

 flieaeas may yst ba opsa to diseasston, 

 tha ioimediatffiy local effijcfcs ol tree 

 plaating are uadaaiablo. Tli© ttrwit 

 h^aawa oalj toavrall thed»ssie&tiag ®SjcI: 

 of hot dry wiads parchiaf{ ap liis fitlds 

 and pastares ; he kaowj as walL ths 

 effactoa his stack, aad the coaiitioasof 

 his paddocks, ia tha hsat of saoiiisr. and 

 the bleak cold of early spriag. Jadicioas 

 tree plaatiag h.s.% baaa foaiid ia othar 

 coaatriea an eSectaal hsip ia bath cases. 



Now, ia cuaelasioa, 1 would |,oiu6 oat 

 oace ag^aia what woald h» the effect te 

 Tasoiaaia had a policy of traa plantiag 

 beea parsaad by oaf forefathers. 

 Firstly, oar waters waald have baea ooa- 

 serrel, aadiastead of psrisdsof drought 

 with DO feel aad httLe water, mised wttk 

 saddaa floods, ws shaaLd h%ve aataral 

 resarvairs of reteatioa, with cjasis^eat 

 brooks, iastead of empty creaks. 

 iSeoaadly, feom tha eztaasioa tha forasts 

 woald now hare assaoDd iast»ai of 

 haria^ vast erapintiag faas, a&y like 

 tha Samilton distftetfor iasttaca, whera 

 tae eloads only too offisa coais up from 

 the west, espaad into iavisibility over 

 haad, to be coadeased oaca agaia whea 

 they havapisssd away to tk? eist, we 

 should have had candsasatiaa iastead 



^vith a HM of nsoisfcare, wi&h all its con« 

 <s-<mitiat bsaeEtg. And lastly, instead 

 of Qow impoptiag attQU.%Uy £18,003 

 worth of soft woods we should not only 

 producs what we require, but be large 

 expsfters iuto tks bargaia. 



^uch bsiag tks case is it mot s. wise 

 poliey, is ifc aofc a duty to posterity, tbat 

 i£ tha tkiag e&a be done without a ias: oa 

 our labors sud resoH.rsss, that we should 

 do wkafc we regret our aasestors have not 

 doae for us ? £ think there can be no 

 quastiou %bau6 it. Oaly how is it to be 

 douep If a private individual made np 

 his miad to plant a hundred acres with 

 good trees ka would £ad i6 too great a 

 bardea. The work would kave to be 

 iuitiatsd aad partially conducted by the 

 Stale. The State, up to a point, can 

 produea the youn? trees without appre- 

 ciable espsuso. The State has plenty of 

 IsLni available at K'aw Town, Sisdon, 

 andelsswhece for allrequiremeats. We 

 h&7a iu)a already employed ia similar 

 work. Our Gonservator {M.v Penny), 

 our able manager of our Botanic Gardens 

 (Mr Abbott) and his a^sistaut (Mr 

 Wardeman), who have ample ability for 

 all that would be immediately required, 

 aad we have abuadaace of cheap labor. 

 The young trees being produced in 

 quantity it would remain for the Depart- 

 tusnt to supply them at a low cost to 

 reliable landholders, who would plant 

 them uttder suitable supervision, And 

 if this priueipla of State nurseries and 

 supsrvision were economically ©arried 

 out the department would be self- 

 supportiBg, and in a lew years the only 

 WQEsder would be that the foresight vt 

 our public men had not adopted such a 

 policy 8Q)0Eer. 



