FIVE-YEAR PLAN.
STATE AFFORESTATION. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, June 30. With the dual object of removing unemployed men from sustenance and placing them in full-time employment, and of creating national assets for future generations, the Commissioner of State Forests (Hon. F. Langstone) has under consideration a five-year afforestation plan. The Minister said to-da.v he had asked the Director of Forestry to bring down a five-year plan and to ascertain what Crown lands were not suitable for ordinary pastoral or agricultural purposes. with a view to having them transferred to the Forestry Department, either as provisional or permanent State forests. It was then intended to go forward with planting operations according to a proper plan.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 June 1937, Page 10
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114FIVE-YEAR PLAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 June 1937, Page 10
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