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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 235, 5 October 1936, Page 9

A programme of forest works for the next live years is suggested in the annual report of the Stato Forest Service, which was presented in the House of Representatives this week by tho Commissioner of Stato Forests, Hon. F. Langstone. The programme comprises the extension of fire-prevention methods • a limitation on the further planting of exotics to consolidation and blanking of existing forests; further experimental under-planting of indigenous cut-over forests with exotics; the adoption of working plan management for tho major kauri forests, portions of the silver-beech forests of Southland, the rimu pole-typo forests of Westland, and the mixed rimu forests of the North Island, and the substitution of log sales for block sales of standing timber wherever practicable.

The advisability of co-operation between Australia and New Zealand on the question of defence was emphasised by the Commonwealth Minister of Defence (Sir Arelidale Parkhill) at a luncheon given by the Government in honour of the Australian and British delegates to the aviation and air-mail conference. The defence policies of tho two countries, said Sir Archdale, wero identical. “It is in the problems connected with defence perhaps that the two countries are most bound up with each other, ” he added. “Even apart from their common participation in Imperial defence, their local defence problems are very similar.”