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Monday, 14 December 2020, 4:10 pm Back in in the late 1960s, some forward thinking people in Marlborough’s then local government bodies thought it would be a good idea to plant pine trees on large tracts of unproductive land to promote soil stabilisation and to generate funding from logging. In 1995 revenue from logging started to be realised, taking financial pressure off the region’s ratepayers and generating funds for a wide range of community facilities and projects. That original vision has reaped enormous rewards for the Marlborough region, said Councillor Gerald Hope, who chairs t...

Monday, 14 December, 2020 - 16:15 Back in in the late 1960s, some forward thinking people in Marlborough’s then local government bodies thought it would be a good idea to plant pine trees on large tracts of unproductive land to promote soil stabilisation and to generate funding from logging. In 1995 revenue from logging started to be realised, taking financial pressure off the region’s ratepayers and generating funds for a wide range of community facilities and projects. That original vision has reaped enormous rewards for the Marlborough region, said Councillor Gerald Hope, who cha...