Labour’s forestry policy
-X.By.
OLIVER RIDDELL
'‘Labour? is opposed to blanket forestry plantings in areas where land would be more productive if kept in pastoral'farming, according to the chairman of Labour’s primary production council, Mr A A .Wallbank (Gisborne). - - ‘T.am concerned at the land-grabbing techniques of large companies,” he said. Forestry was important to the economy, but smaller woodlots planted by individual farmers on a guaranteed stumpage rate under contract were preferable to large-scale schemes. These could tie up thousands of hectares in blanket pinus radiata plantations, Mr Wallbank said.
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