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sides of the Kennedy Road and the Peak transporting large trees Road and in (30 and 40 feet high) to a short new road leading from St. Paul's College to Cott Sibb's House, Mr Price was entirely successful, though at a cost somewhat out of proportion to the limited result achieved.
9. That afforestation has now been taken thoroughly in hand, Your Lordship will see from Mr. Ford's recent report of the 15th of May 1880. Instead of planting out fifteen thousand trees per annum, Mr. Ford has already planted 60,000 this year, and he anticipates a total of over a quarter of a million for the year's work.
10. With the co-operation of the Chinese, to which Mr. Ford refers in paragraph 5 of his report, we may perhaps be able, from the middle of next year, to plant out half a million of trees per annum.
11. I have not confined the planting to the native pine tree, the Pinus Sinensis, only. The nurseries contain seedlings of indigenous oaks, Casuarina, and other hardy and valuable timber trees.
12. During 1878 about five thousand cocoa-nut palms planted by Mr. Frise on Stone Cutters' Island, at Bowrington and close to the Village of Aberdeen. These trees will be