STATE NURSERY AND FOREST.
f»T TELHGRATIf. — F&Uft ASSOCIATIOH.) OAMARU. This Day. Tho Minister for Lands visited Kurow last night to discuss with residents the rumoured abandonment by the Forestry Department of tho State nursery and forest at Kurow. Mr. M'Pherson, M.H.R., introduced a strong deputation, the Hon. T. Duncan being also present. The Minister made a clear and csplicit statement as to the intention of the Government with regard to the matter under discussion, after which the following motion was carried: — "Having heard.- the .very clear and explicit state-ment-of-the-Minister of Lands, the de-putation-wish to withdraw any expression of" displeasure 'or dissatisfaction with the action of the s Government and accept the explanation as perfectly 'satisfactory." "In acknowledging the motion" Mr. M'Kab said nothing further- would be done in the way of reducing the nursery until the first portion ot the land proposed to be planted is put into the name of the Crown a3 a guarantee tliat the Government intended to carry out the work. He was not in a position to say when the land- in the district would be reserved for the purpose of planting out.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 117, 18 May 1907, Page 6
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188STATE NURSERY AND FOREST. Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 117, 18 May 1907, Page 6
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