FORESTRY POLICY.
To the Editor. Sir, — Referring to the agreement given by the State Forestry Service some time ago undertaking to withdraw from active competition with the nursery trade in the supply and sale of forest trees, this agreement is being loyally maintained by the State Service. There is, however, one matter which horticultural trades consider should be rectified; that is, the supplying of forest trees to local bodies, provided the trees ari planted by unemployed labour. This action is naturally having the opposite effect to that desired by the Service. It is throwing on the labour market the men who have grown the trees and also those who have usually planted them out. There is plenty of State land suitable for afforestation purposes and if the State Forest Serrice planted some of their own lands, using the unemployed for the purpose, New Zealand would be better off. The unemployed would be assisted and no one would be injured in the process. — I am, etc., J. N. McLEOD, N.D.H. (N.Z.), Pres. N.Z. Horticultural Traders' Association
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 239, 30 May 1932, Page 6
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