FORESTRY LEAGUE
MEETING OF NEW ZEALAND COUNCIL. A meeting of the council of the New Zealand Forestry League was held on Thursday last. Mr. A. Leigh Hunt was in the chair. At a previous, meeting the league decided to make representations to the senate of the University to provide facilities for the training of officers in forestry, and to the Minister of Education to provide the "necessary financial assistance Replies were received to tho effect that the matter would be considered by the senate next month, and from the Government that it would give due consideration to the representations made. It was also decided to arrange a deputation to wait upon the Ministers of Finance and Forestry with a view to placing before the Government the necessity for establishing a forest purchase fund to enable the State to secure available forests for conservation, scenic, and commercial purposes. A resolution was passed expressing appreciation at the remarks of tho Hon. J. G. Coates respecting the Urewera Country, and expressing the hope that the Government will not pursue the insensate policy of the past by ruining good forests to make poor farms. A resolution was passed regarding the matter of protection of the native bird life from stoats and weasels, and rkvouring a deputation to the Government. , .
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 104, 28 January 1924, Page 10
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