FORESTRY SCHOOL
PROFESSOR URGES NEED FOR EXPANSION £4,000 ASK£D FOR The need for a larger staff and increased grant in the Auckland School of Forestry was stressed by the director, Professor H. H. Corbin, in a report to the Auckland University College Council yesterday. His report said that the staff was obviously inadequate, and there was need for £SOO a year for equipment and travelling expenses. The value of 12,000,000 acres of forest. which practically existed in the Dominion to-day, at as low a valuation as £SO an acre., independent of the value of the land, was equal to £600,000,000. This was equivalent on a rental basis at 5 per cent, to £30,000,000. The State wf.s asked for a sum of £4,000 a year for the training of the foresters to handle the forests efficiently, and this was equal to about threepence for every £IOO of tho rental value of the forests. It was submitetd that the financial position of the school, if it had £4,000 a year, would be on a reasonable basis comparable to similar schools of forestry in other countries where the forest assets were less valuable than those in the Dominion. \
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 486, 16 October 1928, Page 16
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