EMPIRE FORESTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 214, 10 September 1928, Page 7

EMPIRE FORESTRY.

TOUR OF DELEGATES. NEW ZEALAND ITINERARY. MANY DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. Leaving for Australia by the Aorangi this evening are Mr. Phillips-Turner. Director of Forestry, and Mr. W. T. Morrison, Conservator of Forests for the Rotorua regioil, two of New Zealand s delegates to the quinquennial Empire Forestry Conference, which is being held in the Commonwealth for the first time. a *: Delegates to the conference, who represent every Dominion and practically every Crown Colony in the British Empire, assembled in Perth on August 21 and their time has since been occupied in inspecting plantations in the Southern States of Australia and Tasmania. Messrs. Phillips-Turner and Morrison will join the party in Sydney on Friday next and, after viewing timber lands and milling operations in the vicinity of Tardee, on the Manning River, and* in various parts of Queensland, will proceed to Canberra for the principal sessions of the conference, which is calculated to conclude on October 2.

The delegates, numbering between 60 and 70, will then come to New Zealand. Arriving at Wellington on October 8, they will be tendered a welcome by the Government, and will leave the same evening for the South Island, where they will be conductcd over the municipal plantations at Dunedin and Stateowned forests on the West Coast. Returning, via the Buller Gorge and Nelson, to Wellington, the party will be conveyed by special train to the National Park, from whence they will be motored to Taupo and Rotorua, inspecting en route the State plantations at Waiotapu and Kaingaroa. After visiting the Rotorua nursery on Wednesday, October 17, a further session of the conference will be held. Arrival at Auckland. The following day the delegates wOl leave for Auckland, where they are scheduled to arrive at 11 p-m. On Friday, October 19, an early start will be made for Dargaville, where the conference will be continued if necessary, and the famous Waipoua .kauri forest visited. The party returns to Auckland at 11.18 p.m. on the Saturday, and has Sunday at their leisure. The conference will sit in Auckland on Monday, October 22, and those of the party who do not remain to connect with the Vancouver steamer on the Tuesday, will proceed to Wellington to take steamer there.

Discussing the arrangements this morning, Mr. Phillips-Turner said that unfortunately the delegates could spara only fourteen days in New Zealand, and therefore it was impossible for them to visit many of the forestry districts. It had to be clearly understood, however, that they were visiting the Dominion solely for professional purposes and in order to see the progress made in the direction of forestry here. Amongst subjects to be discussed by the conference were the insurance of future timber supplies for the Empire, training of foresters, silv?cultural systems, wood pulp for paper-making, artificial seasoning of timber, timber by-products, insect and fungoid diseases, and the question of the establishment of an Imperial forestry bureau. Among the Delegates. Included on the list of delegates to visit New Zealand arc Lord Clinton (chairman of the British Forestry Commission), Mr. R. L. Robinson (technical commissioner of the British Forestry Commission), Sir Wililam Furse (assistant commissioner of the British Forestry Commission), Professor R. S. Troup (director of the Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford), Mr. A. C. Forbes (Director of Forestry for the Irish Free State), Mr. E. H. Finlayson (Director of Forestry, Ottawa). Mr. C. h. Leg at (Chief Conservator of Knives, South Africa), Mr. C. 0. Trevor (Conservator of Forests. United Province, India), and Sir I'. 11. Cluttorhiirk (representing the Empire Fon-try Associations, India).