The School of Forestry.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20090, 20 November 1930, Page 10

The School of Forestry.

The announcement made yesterday by the Minister for Education, that the School of Forestry at Canterbury College is to be the national School, will be warmly welcomed. There is no need now to rehearse the very strong arguments in favour of Canterbury as the home of the single national School that the Dominion needs—they were well outlined by Mr Atinore, who, after more than a year's investigation, found them entirely convincing; but it is pleasant to reach the end of a long controversy and to know that the work which has been done in Canterbury and can best be clone in Canterbury, or from Canterbury as a base, will now be accelerated and extended. With its new status and wider resources, of course, the School acquires greater responsibilities. It will have to bu reorganised to undertake them. But it will not have to build new foundations of thoroughness or enterprise. Since the College in 1919 received the Adams Bequest, from which the School first grew, it has developed its work rapidly but never with a haste that might have impaired its scientific value; and the result is that in theoretical and practical teaching, and in research on both sides of the Alps, the School has achieved remarkable success. In research and field work it has of course concentrated on the special [ roblems ot Canterbury and Westland . but some of these are so important that in dealing with them the School has already handsomely begun and advanced its national work. Now that this is entrusted wholly to it, the School has a richer opportunity to serve the Doi inion, which more than ever needs to know how to make and save and use forests; and Canterbury people, especially, will not only wish it success but be confident of it.