FORESTERS ORGANISE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 March 1928, Page 5

FORESTERS ORGANISE.

■ A NEW INSTITUTE. DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNICAL WORK. SPECIAL TO THE STAR. WELLINGTON, March 24. At a meeting in Rotorua last week, attended by almost all the leading technical foresters in tine Dominion, a New Zealand Institute of Foresters was established to further the deve’opment of technical forestry in the Dominion and t'lu? interests of the profession of forestry. It was considered necessary by those associated in the move ment that as the public is interested in commercial afforestation in New Zealand to the- extent of ever two millions sterling, that- these interests should be protected by ensuring that foresters have just as definite technical and practical qualifications as civil engineers, architects, or surveyors. Mr L. Macintosh Ellis, Director of Forestry, presided at tine meeting, and a constitution was adopted following the lines of similar bodies in the Eng-lish-speaking world. The election of officers and- members of the council resulted' as follows:—President, Mr L. Macintosh Ellis, B.Se. F- ((Toronto), C.S.F.E.: S.A.F.; v.ioe-pre.sident, Piof. H. Hueh Oorbin, B.Sc., Prof, of Forestry, Auckland University; secretary and Treasurer, Mr Frank. W. Foster, 8.A., B.Sc. (Assistant Conservator of Forests, Auckland); members of council, Messrs Arnold Hansson, B.A-, M.F. (Chief Inspector of Forestry, Wellington), Wm. T. Morrison (Consera vtor of Forests, Rotorua), A. D. McGavock (Conservator of Forests, Hokitika), and C. M. Smith, M.A., B.Se. For. (Conservator of Forests, Nelson). Members of the Institute will jnc.ude honorary, ordinary, associate, and stu’ent. Ordinary members must be qualified for election both by high technical training and a period of active practical work, or for a very limited time in special cases, by a long and successful period of practical work only. A prolessional thesis will be required of associate members graduating to ordinary membership. . One of the chief aims of the institute will be to publish an annua volume of papers of a technical nature, which should serve future foresters as a valuable and authentic record of conditions of to-day which may provide the key to future problems.