FORESTRY CAMPS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 March 1930, Page 5

FORESTRY CAMPS

I REMAINDER CLOSING DOWN. (Per PreaH Association.) WELLINGTON, March 14. > The closing down at the end of th ■ current month of the remaining foi estry relief works camps will involw the discharge of 440 men. This is an nouncell by the Commissioner of Stati Forests (the Hon. W. R. Taverner) who also indicates the possibilities o their re-employment when the planting season starts again. The Commissioner states that the majority of the relief works in tin programme set out in October havi been carried to completion, and only two parties remain on the works out side the normal seasonal ‘ routine These parties are at Rotorua (34C men) and at Tapanui (100 men). “The extra, funds provided last year by the Government,” says the Commissioner, “for this forestry work have been £120,000 in addition to the normal appropriations, and an extra complement averaging 700 men, has been maintained in employment throughout the summer season. Besides contributing so largely towards the relief of unemployment and preparing the way for a big programme this winter, if required, there has been brought about a great improvement in the existing- stands of youngexotic trees.”