BEECH FORESTS
TO AUGMENT TIMBER SUPPLY. , BOTANICAL INVESTIGATION. Owing to the past abundance of kauri, white pine, totara, and matai the New Zealand beeches have been very little used, but the growing scarcity of the former timbers ana their rising prices make the beech forests of increasing economic importance. Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S., Ph.D., F.L.S., F.N.Z., has been engaged by the State Forest Service as honorary botanist to make a report on the beech forests of the Dominion. The habit and' hehavour 'of the various beeches in the forest ib very imperfectly known, so that the silvicultural treatment required to secure beech regeneration and a maximum and sustained yield of timber cannot at present he laid down. Dr. Cockayne’s investigations will supply this deficiency.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11422, 19 January 1923, Page 6
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124BEECH FORESTS New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11422, 19 January 1923, Page 6
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