EMPIRE FORESTRY COMMISSION

Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1928, Page 6

EMPIRE FORESTRY COMMISSION

DOMINION VISIT. PROBLEMS OF TIMBER, SUPPLY. The Empire Forestry Conference, which comprises over sixty delegates, together with a dozen officials of the New Zealand Forestry Department, arrive at Hokitika this evening.

The overseas members of the conference are visiting New Zealand f for fifteen days in continuation of the conference which was opened at Perth on September 21. The conference, which is concerning itself with the timber resources of the British Empire and related problems, has nine members representing Great Britain, and a similar number each for Australia and India, South Africa, Canada, Ireland, the Malay States, Ceylon, Borneo-, Kenya, and other parts of the Empire have representatives. The chairman of the conference is the Right Hon. Lord Clvnton, who is Chairman of the British Forestry Commission. Other well-known membeis of the party are Sir William ‘ Furse, K.C.R., D.S.O. (Director of the Imperial Institute and representing the EmDire Marketing Board) ; Sir P. HClutterbuck, K.8.E., C.1.E., C.B F., P.D. (representing the Empire Forestry Association) ; Mr R-. U. Robinson. (O'iB.EI. (Technical Commissioner of the British Forestry Commission) ; Mr E. : H. Finlayson (Director of Forestry, Ottawa); Professor R. S. Troup (Director of the Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford); /Mr A.. C. Forbes, (Director of Forestry, Irish Free State) ; Air R. Legat --Chief Conservator of Forests, South Africa)-; and Air H. A. Pritchard, 0.8. E. (Assistant Commissioner, British Forestry Commission) .

New Zealand’s quota to the conference includes the Director of Forestry, Air E. Phillips Turner, and various forestry officers from all parts of the Dominion to the number of over a dozen.

During the fifteen days that the delegates are in New Zealand every endeavour will be made to enable them to see as much as possible of the Dominion’s natural forests, reserves, aud plantations. This will necessitate mudi travelling, but at various centres the conference will find time to hold sittings, when problems relating to forestry, from both the practical and Ihe economic point of view, will he considered. As was the case in Australia, the primary object of the touring will be, not to see-the scenic features of the country, but to gain -first-hand knowledge of tli-e forestry conditions a knowledge which will greatly assist the conference in its deliberations.

FOR ESTRY CONFERENCE. DUNEDIN, Oct. 10. The Imperial Forestry delegates xvbo returned North hv special train this afternoon, .inspected the City Corporation’s afforestation work, which they warmly praised. They were greatly impressed with the planting of such .a (large area of over 5000 acres with another 5000 available.