Forest and land use
Sir, — Mr Peter Berg of the Forest Service (May 23) claims my figures on Westland forestry economics are incorrect. He cannot deny that they are a correct statement of the position from the latest published accounts, for the year ended March, 1983. He now produces figures from unpublished accounts for the year ended March 1984, that will no doubt be available after the Forest Service annual report is tabled in Parliament. I am sceptical of his claim that 1983-4 costs were only $3.34M, since this would mean a reduction of 18 per cent on the previous year’s cited cost figure, • a figure which itself excluded more than a million dollars of administration and capital works substantially associated with indigenous forestry. Mr Berg makes no comment on the expenditure of almost S7M on conversion of native forest to exotics, which the Officials Committee says will make a loss. — Yours, etc. GUY SALMON. May 23, 1984.
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