EMPIRE FORESTS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19448, 23 October 1928, Page 8

EMPIRE FORESTS.

WORK OF CONFERENCE ENDS. FINAL MEETING AT AUCKLAND. [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, October 22. The third British Empire Forestry Conference, after having travelled f° r many weeks in Australia and New Zea land, brought its proceedings to a conclusion by a sitting held in the Auckland University College building, the chairman, Lord Clinton, presiding. The sitting was held in committee, and dealt with the completing of various matters which the conference had previously had in hand. . Eesolutions were passed expressing appreciation of the-hospitality shown by the Government and people of New Zealand, and finally warm compliments were paid to the chairman. The conference then adjourned until 1933, to a time and place to be fixed by the Government of the Union of South Africa. Some of the delegates started on their homeward journey via Wellington by express trains, and those for the American continent will leave by the Niagara. STANDARDISATION URGED. (PEESS ASSOCIATION TBLEQBAM.) AUCKLAND, October 22. The Empire Forestry Conference, at its final sitting this morning, passed a resolution affirming the desirability of adopting the same name throughout the Empire for each species of timber. The so-called for instance, in New Zealand, which are really beeches, are now known by different names in the North and South Islands. The conference passed a somewhat similar resolution urging the use of the same set of terms in all forestry plants, no matter in what part of the Empire. A number of delegates will leave this afternoon for Wellington en route to Sydney. The others go by the Vancouver boat on Wednesday. Lord Clinton says that the commission was especially impressed by the wonderful amount of tree-planting in New Zealand, by the qualities of her growth and the wise manner in which forest areas were being conserved. They had found beautiful scenic reserves set apart in the most liberal manner.