STATE FORESTS REPORT

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1923, Page 3

STATE FORESTS REPORT

WELLINGTON. Aug. 13. In the annual repoit of the Director of Forestry Captain .Macintosh Ellis') presented to Parliament yest.ciday. it is recommended that a special Suite forests purchase account ol 23110,(100 should he established for i lie acquisition of highly valuable native and privately owned forests in the public interest. The Director considers ilia! the forest authority should iimv be

made responsible tor the admiuistratinn of all Government timber ami rarest activities. An experiment station was urgently needed for the systematic study and investigation of North Islam! forest s. The Director also recommends the dedication to forestry and conservation of the large area ol uualieiiatcd Crown forests (over 2.(190.0(!t) acres), ii.it as yet under the control of the lores! authority. Piovision for a Schol of Forestry is also sought. r ! he Director slates i hat a much greater pari icipiat ion in the profitable business ol operating niiiiiiiiinity plantations and tree farms hv cities, boroughs. count ie-. and other local hollies, is possible 1 1\ fuller State cn-opei at ion, a more definite policy of administration and control of several hundred miles of sawmill tramways no" in epoialiuii throughout the fere-led region- of New Zealand, is recommended. The year’s revenue totalled U'lo.iWl. the luglcst for 28 years. The expendi-

ture was “22,172 less than last year. The survey of New Zealand’s forest resources indicated a national capital of 8133 million eiihie feet. The estimated net annual inmetnenl is Is!) millions, the annual consumption 78 millions, and the export five million cubic feel. With New Zealand eating into its glowing forest capital at the r:j.■ of 13 million cubic feel per annum, the national lon-st programme was, says the Director, adopted just in time. Thirty liiousaml per-oiis visited ille lores! s hist year.