FOREST RESEARCH

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 42, 19 February 1931, Page 12

FOREST RESEARCH

STATION AT NELSON

OPENED BY MINISTER

„ (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") NELSON, This Day. The latest development of research into matters pertaining to the scientific management of forests in New Zealand is the establishment in Nelson of a Forest Biological Besearch Station, which was officially opened by the Minister of Education to-day.. Already a considerable amount of work has been carried out upon problems of forest zoology and forest mycology, and an early effort to tackle effectively the destruction by insects of fungi is expected to play an increasingly important part in forest economy in the Dominion. Experience in other countries has shown tho enormous potential powers of destruction possessed by these organisms, ■ their ravages being responsible for the destruction of millions of feet of growing timber. The founding of the new station should do much to avoid the destruction of New Zealand's forests. The new station was made possible by co-operation of the State Forest Department, tho Timber Growers' Association, and the Cawthron Institute, under organisation by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Besearch. Dr. David Miller, chief entomologist of Cawthron Institute, will direct one section of work at NelBon, and Dr. Cunningham the mycology branch at the Palmerston North plant station. ,^_^____^^___