AFFORESTATION.
CABINET’S SYMPATHY.
(Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 31. A deputation to the Prime Minister laid before him a resolution passed at a conference of Rangitikei, Horowhenua, and Manawatu County Councils, and other associations, urging that the sand dunes area on the west coast of the North Island should be afforested, and asking for an annual grant Vf £IOOO for five years for the purpose of enabling an experimental station to be set up by the Forestry Department for demonstration purposes. Mr Massey said the Government had already shown its earnestness in forestry work. Cabinet was sympathetic. If the Government could make a success with the £SOOO asked for it would be well spent. He would not commit himself to the expenditure of the said amount, but it would probably be part of the Forestry Estimates next session.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18158, 1 February 1921, Page 5
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