EMPIRE FORESTRY

Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1930, Page 2

EMPIRE FORESTRY

HANDBOOK PUBLISHED. i LONDON, July 5. After eight years of patient foundation work tins Empire Forest) v Association has been established as a selfsupporting organisation. During the years of infancy the association enjoyed the assistance of numerous godparents, including the Rhodes Trustees, who made grants amounting to £IBOO to help to set the association on its feet. In the past twelve months the association has taken a first step in the direction of wider usefulness by publishing an Empire Forestry Handbook containing particulars of Em--1 pire-grown timbers for a variety of purposes. This has been an immediate | success both as a guide to the timber trade and as a. survey of Empire - re- ! sources The Empire Marketing Board helped with the cost of the publication. A handbook will be published yearly, and it is hoped to extend the usefulness of each edition. Suggestions from merchants and users of timber about the kind of information they would like included will be welcomed. The association is deeply interested in the work of another body, the British Wood-Preserving Association, recently inaugurated and now about to be registered. Anything that gives timber longer “life” is equivalent to an increase in timber resources, and successful research may enable home grown soft woods with proper treatment to be more extensively employed than they are at present. The Empire Forestry Association, though principally com fumed with overseas countries, exists to promote also the welfare of the home producer of commercial timber. Ill,« ,| iniMll—Mß