FORESTRY COMMISSION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1686, 28 February 1913, Page 8

FORESTRY COMMISSION.

EVIDENCE RECEIVED: YESTEHDAT; : The Forestry.-. Com mission' : continued-. its! deliberations-' yesterday,' but/has not yet completed its detailed itinerary.' -It is nil-' ticiiiat-ed that : the'detnils of the Dominion l tour will be. arranged • toKlay., -.. s \ Tw'o. letter? wcro recoived- yesterday, one of- them from Mr. C 4. E. , Humphries, builder, of Wellington, who ; suggested, that the Government,: ; before' putting settlers on mining lease-lands,-should allow sawmillers to cut 'the timber,, In this why timber ; wliichwas i now wasted would bo " conserved. MTiih-', .valuable, milling timber, Mr. Humphries stated, was iiow. destroyed by settlers/ HeUdyocated,also,> the conservation of-'Native bush-wherever, possible. ■: " ; ■ J[r. A. Bathgate, o£ Dunedin', president; of tlio Otngo Ijistitute, : wrote strongly ad-' vocatihg the claims, of Central Otngo for strenuous efforts on the part of tlio Gov-( eminent in regard-to: afforestation-of the tnkless region's. What had been done by tlie State in this matter was a mere no- 1 thing compared to what ought to have been-done. .He considered ,that extensive; plantations should be.' made at the head of all, important streams in tlio mountains 'surrounding the Mnnuherikia and •Molynenx-valleys.'- • . 1.• , . ArrflngGDicjttft are. foemp > niade to atlVertise the sittings" of the : commissipnthroughout the Dominion, in-order to encourage the production of evidence... •,