FORESTRY WORK

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 85, 20 October 1928, Page 17

FORESTRY WORK

CLASSES OF SOFT WOODS FLOOD DANGEBS (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. When asked whether the best classes of soft woods wore being cultivated in New Zealand, Lord Clinton,' the chairman- of the Empire Forestry Conference, said that was a matter on which lie would not care to be dogmatic. People of 'the country knew more about trees best suited to the soil and climate. Some" of the trees being grown certainly were not those regarded as the best timber, but others wore. There were large areas in the State forests of Douglas: fir, which was one of the best soft woods, and alsr there was an extensive cultivation of European larch, another.good timber.' . ■ "We really admire the forests this Dominion has made," said Lord Clin'..ton. '-It is-really a very big thing done well. I refer, of course, to the work of the State,not being in a rjosi-'" tion to discuss private undertakings." Throughout their tour iv every- country,, said Lord Clinton, they had observed serious consequences of forest destruction in* erosion, the silting-up of livers, the danger of sudden floods, and in the drier countries the danger of drought' through 'the rapid "escape of water that otherwise would be held to soak into the" ground, A' brief and plain speaker was Mr. K. D. .Richmond, chief ..conservator of forests, Madras, who heads the Indian delegation. "Yo.u have done wonderful work' in establishing, plantations," he said, "and you have been wonderfully'neglectful of them. The State plantations want thinning. If; it is said the country cannot afford to do this-.u-ork, niy reply "is that it cannot afford not to do it. You may say so in so .many words."