BUSH PRESERVATION
PREVENTION OF EROSION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 26. The necessity for a national organisation for bush conservation and amenity planting, in the light of the recent serious floods in Hawke’s Bay, was urged at the annual meeting of the Royal Society of New Zealand at Victoria University College to-day by Dr E. Marsden, Director of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. “It is becoming a great problem. and if something is not done we are heading toward a calamity,” he said. , / The president (Professor W. P. Evans) said that unfortunatelyf it took such a disaster to focus attention on the' problem. On, the motion of Dr was decided to urge the Governmentto set up a Royal Commission with scientifciaUy competent personnel to inquire into and report on the preservation of. the vegetation of New Zealand, with special reference to forests and the incidence; control and prevention of land erosion.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 27 May 1938, Page 9
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153BUSH PRESERVATION Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 27 May 1938, Page 9
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