New shade house ready next week

Next week, the Ministry of Agriculture will begin shifting plants from the nursery in Arorangi to the newly built shade house/nursery in Tereora where plants to be used for beautification during the 2009 Mini Pacific Games will be grown.
When the Times visited the new shade house at Tereora on Friday it was almost completed. Job foreman Avaiki Aperau and his team of six workers were completing the last of the wooden platforms on which the plants would stand.
The shade house is four metres high and 20 metres by 10 metres in size. Construction is very sturdy with four by four posts and two by four wooden framing for the tables. Netting shades the whole structure and the doors are lockable.
Aperau said by June things should be well under way with something like 2,000 ornamental plants grown. The plants will include varieties of hibiscus, palms, Tiare Maori and Tiare Teina, Bougainvillea and other plants.
During the 2009 Mini Games, plants from the shade house will decorate various venues either being planted out or arranged in containers.
Aperau said CISNOC were meeting the costs for the structure while staff from the Ministry were helping out.
Although the shade house is in an area which cannot be secured against unlawful entry, Minister for Agriculture Ngamau Munokoa told the Times the shade house was lockable and regular checks would be scheduled to deter thefts of plants.

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