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The policy of sending officers overseas to study forest problems in other lands was inaugurated during the year. One officer left in October and spent three months on the Pacific slopes of Canada and the United States. The main objective was to ascertain the best sources for the supply of the seed of the various species used in New Zealand and which are indigenous to the Pacific slopes. The chief timber species in the various forest types were studied, with a view to locating the areas wherein the optimum growth of the species occurred, and of arranging for the collection of seed in those areas. A study was also made of the methods adopted in the collection, extraction, and storage of tree-seed, in nursery practice, in fire protection, and in forestry matters generally. During the year the exchange of officers with the Forests Commission of Victoria for a period of six months was arranged, and in December two officers of the Service left for Victoria and two Victorian officers arrived in New Zealand. This exchange of officers should prove of great mutual benefit to both countries. An officer of the Forest Products Branch of the Service spent six weeks in the eastern States of Australia investigating the experimental pulping-work being carried out there, and observing the results obtained with trial shipments of New Zealand timbers which were tested for this Service by the Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Melbourne. During the coming year this officer will proceed to the Forest-Products Laboratory at Madison, U.S.A., to observe the methods used in the treatment on a commercial scale of 34 tons of rimu, tawa, insignis pine, Corsican pine, Austrian pine, and European larch in the round which has been despatched from New Zealand. A study will also be made of the operations of commercial pulp and paper plants and forest-products problems generally in the United States and. Canada. The information and dataobtained will further forest-utilization in New Zealand.

Modern Machinery used in Nursery Practice by the Forest Service.

State Forest Service Organization--Distribution of Permanent Staff as at 31st March, 1927.

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