VOTE FOR FORESTRY.
PAYMENTS OVER TEN YEARS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 15. Tho Government has undertaken to ask Parliament to vote a total sum of £5,500,000 to the Forestry Commission on agreed annual instalments during ten years beginning April 1 this year. Inuring the last ten years £3,500,000 hail been provided. The commission will also derive increased revenue from forest products of about £1,400,000 in all. It is expected that these sums will enable the commission to provide 225.000 acres of new plantation, devote £1,000,000 to forest workers’ holdings, and make grants for other purposes, including tho planting of municipal and private lands and forestry education and research.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 41, 17 January 1929, Page 8
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109VOTE FOR FORESTRY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 41, 17 January 1929, Page 8
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