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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 5

That the desire to “get rich quick'-' was to some extent dominating fores try planting in New Zealand, Austra mad© by Sir Arthur W. llill, director ot Kew Gardens, London, at the annual dinner of the Royai English Forestry Society. He said: “A n*ore deplorable destruction of beauty and scenery thin in such countries as New Zealand and Australia I have never seen. The ne gleet of native trees in the desire to raise quick growing pines is changing the face of these countries, and great risk is being run that native trees :.nd vegetation will gradually disappear." Pr. Cockayne, who was well called the Empire’s greatest botanist, was of like mind to Sir Arthur Hill in regretting the disappearance of our forests. TJn happily, such men have never teen in a position to decide forest policy. What & difference it would have made to the country, in wealth and area of indigenous timberlands, had a Hill or Cock ayne been head of our State forest service twenty or thirty years ago! Forest and Bird ilagazine.