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PLANNING BOAED MT ING April 5, 1932 A meeting of the Planning* Board was held in the Confer- ence Room of the Town Office Building, Tuesday, April 5, 1932, at 8:00 P. 11. Messrs. Scheibe, Milne, Glynn, Cutler and Duffy were present. The Town Engineer and'secretary were also present. &r. Duffy was elected Chairman for the evening. Mr. Scheibe informed the Board that he had called the meeting to discuss the subject of town forests. he has talked with Mr. Trask who said that if the Planning Board recommended a town forest, he would see that the Selectmen would take care of the details and pass it on so that the plotting may be done in time for planting this year. The State is willing to supply TOWN 20,000 trees if we set aside a section and call it a town forest. FOREST The trees are four *ears old, have already been transplanted two or three times, and could be set out by the unemploved men of the town. 'l'he State supplies 1,000 trees to an acre / and two men can plant that number in a day. The land at the rear of the Franklin & Parker Schools, Tower Park, around the old reservoir, at the rear of Westview Cemetery, bowman Park, Center Playground, Town Farm and the land in back of the Lincoln Street dump were all suggested as being suitable ground to start this project. The trees at Bowman Park are thinning out and this is good ground for pine. The Westview Cemetery tract consists of about forty acres and they have only worked on about one-half of it. There are about seven acres around the reservoir.