VALUE OF FORESTRY

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 255, 22 July 1921, Page 6

VALUE OF FORESTRY

EXPERIENCE OF OLDER COUNTRIES A WORK THAT PAYS An instructive address on what forestry has doire in other countries was delivered bv Mr. A. Hanson, Chief Inspector of Forests, before last 8 annual meeting of the New Zealand hoicqfrv League. It could not be said, he remarked, that a finally settl . ?d . po l lcy existed in any country bite were several in a vuy n formation, most of them with a. tern denes towards Government control, io find tangible results from forestry, one l ad to look to the European countries as the results of forestry took about half a century to materialise. The pol J of forest protection was only after cold, experience a dead, sand waste. fhat Mr Hanson went on to point o forestry movement was directly rePractically all forest sr“ " d k ”7 s «dlnre "' i J' e 7 or l ' n u le C< inlrod«etwn of orous campaign to local or negteeted timber species world’s inaikets 1 .jj , benefit, tire to proven ' The ravages of that well controlled fr n VflS 5 Xe thT public, nUie was achieved two-tlnrds O f ihe difficuHtes wore t of" he’tangible nnd direct results st l" Ce ll'v foreterv work in various achieved H f nall snn said thnt. it was t ’ o ,id^nt < ’ihn(' fire existence of a thoroughj fnrpqt administration m ihe ohle. D.iron r e gu l n tions compnrnentren of point vtew'mnde the sujrervision eomnleta Furthermore, tho good examplesc Jo 11,0 Government in mannginv ihe tore I ™d Slewing that such ‘s had made foreMry one o - Imt confidence of Ihe people. .