PROTECTION OF FORESTS
Course For Rangers More than 30 officers of the New Zealand Forest Service will attend a forest protection course at Eyrewell Forest from August 9 to August 16. Lectures will be given on botany, animal ecology, recent developments in animal control (techniques in shooting, trapping, dogging and poisoning), the protection of forests and their com-1 position and function in soil con-1 servation. Talks on management of forests and methods of assessing them will also be part of I this course. Other courses on fire control, clerical work, and various other facets of the organisation’s activities have been held from time to time, but this will be the first course in the South Island dealing with forest protection. The camp will be organised mainly by the Canterbury forest and range experimental station. Offi- I cers attending will be from all parts of New Zealand. Service To West Africa.— Royal Interocean Lines have introduced a direct monthly shipping service between West African ports and New Zealand. The company already operates a service from South Africa and East Africa to New Zealand.—(PA.)
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29235, 20 June 1960, Page 17
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