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STATE FORESTRY

MATTERS SHOULD BE PUSHED FORWARD. • . Forestry matters were among the re-' mits considered by the conference of the ■Now Zealaud Farmers'- Union yesterday. The following remit was moved on be half of the AYellington- Provincial Union, and was carried:—

"That the Government should be persistently pressed until it takes moro active steps to put a Department of Forestry in working order, and that the State Forestry Department be asked to endeavour to establish plantations on some of the sand wastes'on Crown lands."'

The president ((Sir James Wilson) said he did not think the public had realised sufficiently what Sir Francis Dell, as head,of the Forestry Department, had done. He had bad to contend with a areat deal of opposition, but the speaker was uuite satisfied that if matters were left. ~in the hands of Sir Francis Well everything would, bo satisfactory. The Forestry Department had been separated from tho Lands Department, and that was a cood thing. Sir James Wilson added that he was quite satisfied that Sir Francis Bell was seized of the importance of appointing a . thoroughly trained and qualified director of forestry. The following remit from Auckland was also adopted:— "That, the -Government be urged to push forward afforestation,' especially with regard to uuick-growing trees, with a view to supplying the needs of tho dairy and hint industries on land unsuit able for other purposes, and flint farmers' advisory boards be. appointed to assist in conjunction with officers of the Department in saying what lands are suitable or unsuitable for afforestation purposes." '

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 304, 19 September 1919, Page 7

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STATE FORESTRY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 304, 19 September 1919, Page 7

STATE FORESTRY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 304, 19 September 1919, Page 7

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