Conservation measures

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32879, 30 March 1972, Page 4

Conservation measures

Soil and water conservation would be observed and reserves for native flora and fauna would be retained when the beech forests of Nelson, Southland and Westland were used industrially, said Mr P. W. Maplesden. tiie Nelson Conservator of Forests. "The oqly areas cleared for industrial purposes will be those suitable for sustained i regeneration and a patchwork of native forest will be kept in those areas exploited,’’ said Mr Maplesden, who was speaking to the annual meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand. "Altogether. 839,000 acres of beech forest would be used —a mere 9.5 per cent of the total beech forest in the area—and of this, only 5 per cent would be converted into exotic softwood forest, while the rest would be regenerated beech forest,” he said. For some time ecologists and conservationists had maintained that human needs were not a valid reason to interfere with plants and animals, but at the same time there was a great need to meet the demand for the further use.of natural resources, Mid Mr Maplesden. Conference opening.—The opening ceremony of the annual conference of the Education Boards’ Associa tion will be held in the assembly hall at Christchurch Girls’ High School in September. The association was granted permission to use the hall on Tuesday, Sep tember 26, at a meeting of the school’s board of governors on Monday evenWjth a Revolutionary Flavour. 8.0: Who Are You Looking For? 830: Weather and News. 8.40: Film Spectacular Music. 9.0: Fine and Dandy. 9.15: Music of the Maori (N38.C.). 930: To Stir Your Sympathy. A portrait of George Eliot compiled and narrated by Gabriel Woolf . (8.8£.). 10.30: NZ.B.C. News, Weather. 1036: Franco Corelli (tenor). 10.49: The Epilogue for Good Friday. 11.0: 8.8. C. News and Commentary. 11.15: (continuous). 1145: Open Country: Marble Mountain Prospector. 3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (960 kilohertz) 7 p.m.: Wagner Good Friday Music (Parsifal Act 3, Sc. 1). 7.13: Judas’s Apology, by Paul Claudel. 7.30: Musfc for Good Friday. The Jacobean Singers under Barry Rose. 7,45; Poulenc: Divertissement —William Waterhouse (bassoon), Strings of the Melos Ensemble. 7.57: Honegger. Symphony No. 3 (Liturgique). 847: Haydn. 8.49: Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor. Op. 34. 9.30: Bakke’s Night of Fame, by John McGrath, adapted from William Butkos novel, A Danish Gam--73 pm.: The Time of My Life (Gerald Durrell). 8.2: Crowd of Three. A domestic comedy by Tom Hegarty. 9.2: Easy Listening. 11.45: Epilogue. The Rev. Father Bernard Hehir of Wellington. BZM, CHRISTCHURCH (1400 kilohertz) 5 pm: Top in Pop.