STATE FOREST SERVICE
INTERFERENCE WITH NURSERYMEN. At a meeting of the Southland Council of the New Zealand Association ■ of Nurserymen, held in Invercargill, considerable criticism of the State Forest Service for entering into competition with private nurserymen by the sale of trees was indulged in. Mr G. A. Green (Auckland), the Dominion secretary and organiser for the a.sociation, said that some districts were reporting that business was very poor, largely as a result of the competition of the State Forest Nursery Department, which, with the aid of free advertising and other facilities, was able to undercut the private nurseries to a considerable extent. Serious overlapping was being experienced, and with it serious national losses. At another stage Mr Green said that, he had heard it reported that the department had had io burn 6,000,000 trees because of the lack of funds for planting thtm out. It was now appealing to the Government for help to carry on. Further discussion was indulged in, and several points brought up. Mr C. J. Burroughs (Gore) pointed out that an assurance had been given that the State service would not supply trees in lots of less than 1000, yet it did sell bundles of 25 or 50 to anyone who would pay for them. The subject was then dropped.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20252, 10 November 1927, Page 14
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