FOREST SERVICE WORK

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1925, Page 3

FOREST SERVICE WORK

ADVANCE, IN NEW ZEALAND. WELLINGTON. January 17. Some interesting particulars in regard to the New Zealand Forest- .Service were allored in a. short address given to the nurserymen’,; conference h,v Alt' Phillips Turner, secretary to the Forest Service. llie Forest. Service, said Air Turner, was made a separate department in 1918, and afterwards reorganised. The sales of timber had advanced tremendously. and the areas planted had largely increased. Aliich propaganda work had boon done, and the people educated as to the necessity of taking up the great question ol the provision of future timber supplies. I AiI”’RTA.NT WORK. I util a few yea's ago forestry was regarded as the fad of a few enthusiasts, Iu 1 1 tew held that idea now. The l‘"rest .Service laid a special function to supply the timber requirements of the country, ami Now Zealand stood out pre-cmiiicnt!y in that respect at ilio

present time. The year made 'urge areas of indigenous forests in the last four or five years. They had now 71 million acres in reserves. Afforestation, the planting of exotic trees had reached 02.000 acres, and last year Captain Ellis and stall' planted 11.900 acres, which wa.s a record for the British Empire, a feat New Zealand should he proud of. If showed the great advance made in forestry in the last few years, and they were at the present time devoting time to the education if the voting generation in forest rv work, so that in the year, to conic they would iccr-gnise the value of trees for the protection of slock, shelter belts, building and otlcer pm pose:.. Bolts of trees addl'd value to i ho farms and improved t ie climate of Ihe count ry. NEW ZEALAND WELL AHEAD. In the past trees had been cut down without regard to future wants, hut during the last ten years the Englishspeaking world had changed, hut of all British Dominions none had made greater advances limn New Zealand. The department valued the co-operation of the nurserymen, and he was sure they would lie able to work together narmotiiouslv in the future.