COST OF FORESTRY.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 7

COST OF FORESTRY.

;; A. very broad hint that; the present ekpenditure'.on forestry, is to be. curtailed in .the near future .Vwas given in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon by the Prime Minister: Mr. ■ Massey '.was; talking of. economies, when the Leader'of < the Opposition ■ (Mr. T. M. .Wilford) 'suggested that there was room for action in V the Forestry Department.l '••■■• -•;■.. .. -.-;. .■.■... ■.-. "I was 'thinlnng," of that Departs menti!'. said Mr.'Massey. He ,was not able to' say, he added; how much the ■Forestry> Department.:.was; costing the country, but'one of these days it would have'tovbe :gbne..iritp; ■"■'; As- far ; as. he could ; sa'y offhand, the; Department was costing'.;£7s,ooo a/year.' ■':, .;. ;. :, ■ Mr.: Wilfbrd;:. ; "Oh, you. are-a long way. out.'1 y '';.'.. .'.{■';:■;' - ; ;:-' ..;.", ....,•.;>',■ ■ '..Mr. ;Mass»y^:.-.' "I;;don't, li^e to.exaggerate. "';;';■■: ..:'-:';-\ -..,•'.• ;,',:'i":.'S,Z •.%■■;•; ,'. •'■. Mr..;.Wilford : . ."I Kaye the figuies:".. ■•/Mr. Massey ;;thoughtv ;Mr.!. 'Wilford would' find : that..his:.'figuresI.^included things/taken ' over by'-.the.-Forestry De- ■ partmenf from other Departments. • .:■;' ... :Mr. 'Wilford :'•.; "Put; fbrestry back into! the iLands DepaTtmenf..": .; i: ; :, :'';-Mr. Massey'.:, "There^will be an-op-. portunity. to discuss that matter." /He. | added that-he .was of-opinion that, the "country ought to spend.a,certain, amount in the upkeep;of: forests,, and' the planting: of ''how- forests. ;j %.!.:■. ''■■;;'"■■■. : ':/.']'/