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Children's Forest Project

Another milestone in the Coronation Forest tree planting project was reached last month when children from schools in many parts of the province planted a further 17 acres of trees. These plantings bring the total area afforested, since the scheme was commenced in 1954, to 211 acres.

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Children enjoying a day outside the classroom swarm over the hillside.

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Lunch time for Deborah Ross, Christine Challies and Pauline Barnes (front) and Robyn Brown and Anne Stevenson (back).

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Linda Howarth (Tasman) shows us how.

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Three Tasman lads enjoying the lunch break: Vic Torkelly, Jeffrey Tate and Ian Ledley.

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Thirsty work, this tree planting business. Shona Marshall and Denise Gartner relieve the thirst with a couple of bottles of fizz.

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Wielding this grubber to very good effect is Malcolm Coleman (Tasman).

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Some boys just can't resist a tree. Kelvin Lines (Foxhill) has a quick shin up this one to see how high it is.

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Planting one of the 20,000 trees planted at the forest this year is Stephen Holmes (Mahana).

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Robyn Tate of Tasman also gets on with the job.

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Ready for action is this Foxhill school group.