FOREST PROTECTION
NEW AREAB ACQUIRED CONTROL OF PASTORAL RUNS. WELLINGTON, Friday. In a statement regarding bush pre- . servation and the protection of high . I country, llie Commissioner of State j | Forests, the Hon. F. Langslone, men- . J tioned that within the last week or A two the Grown had regained control head waters of the Grey River area, j j Previously the land had been let on j a pastoral license, but it would lie strictly preserved so that it could fulA m its proper purpose as a water con- | servation and general protection area. . An instruction hud been issued for a r j careful review of all run country In [ | West land. A similar policy was he- . ing followed mi the Canterbury side 1 I district’ was handed over to the Stale Forest Service last mouth for proJ elamation as a permanent Stale forest \ with respect to a further 53,000 acres. Arrangements had been completed ' for the surrender by the licensees of all lmsh country within two pastoral . runs in Ihe Lewis Pass locality. The ! areas were over 68.000 acres. lie ‘ ! indicated, that lie was making it a ! special rare to avoid the past mistake J uf denuding steep bush-clad country.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 10
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202FOREST PROTECTION Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 10
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