Our Next day is this Sun 13th June meeting at the rangers station at 9.30am
Planting and Baiting
Chris Ferkins WCC has arranged for more plants for the area adjacent to the spur line. They are all Cortaderia Fulvida ( cutty grass) Experience has shown a) they don't get nicked like the flax and b) are an excellent deterrent when fully grown against 'would be rubbish dumpers'. All planters bring a spade, gardening gloves and trowels for clearing around our plants, plus old newspapers to put around the plants
Baiting
Three lines still to be done in Gleesons designated hard, moderate and easy. Planting people will coordinate with you re car drop off down the Dam Rd and Gleesons
Kelly Block Baiting ( Dam Rd to Spur line) Tues 15th June meeting at the rangers station at 10am
On Tues 15th June we will be joined by about 20 'army corps' senior pupils from Kelston Boys High School where John Staniland is a classics teacher.
We need 3 more volunteers to help show them the 'joys of doing a baitline' in Kelly's block so they can continue to help with the Ark project.
Please let me know if you can help John Stan, Maurice, Andy , Stuart, Grant Capill Laurence and myself on Tues 15th
BBQ RIP
Our sausage cookers have decided that our BBQ is unsafe and needs to be retired from duty. Does any one have a gas BBQ that they no longer use and could be donated?
Meanwhile they will cook inside
We need another sausage person needed once a month- arrive at 11 am and leave at 1pm
Can anyone pick up our two new students arriving from France by plane about 1pm Friday 18th (day of the concert) They will be staying with Andy so will need to be brought out to the cascades where Andy wil be able to take over
Contact John Sumich cjnk@xtra.co.nz
And the Chocolate Fish award goes to........
Matt Mannington for his picture from the West Tunnel Mouth track of Kohekohe Fruit
The Kohekohe has long, drooping panicles of greenish-white, waxy flowers which sprout from the trunk and branches during late autumn - early winter. The three to four-celled fruit capsules open about 15 months later to reveal fleshy, scarlet arils which each contain two seeds. Kohekohe flowers are an important and favoured source of floral nectar for tui and bellbirds.
