A GREAT PROBLEM
FOREST CONSERVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. ROYAL SOCIETY URGES ACTION. The necessity for a national organisation for bush conservation and amenity planting in the light of the recent serious floods in Hawke’s Bay, was urged at the annual meeting of the Royal Society of New Zealand, at Victoria University College, Wellington, yesterday, by Dr E. Marsden, Director of the Department of Industrial and Scientific Research. “It is becoming a great problem, and if something is not done we’re heading towards a calamity,” he said. On the motion of Dr Marsden it was decided to urge the Government to set up a Royal Commission with a scientifically competent personnel to inquire into and report on the preservation of the vegetation of New Zealand, with special reference to forests and the incidence, control and prevention of land erosion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1938, Page 9
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