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Otago Witness, Issue 3594, 30 January 1923, Page 25

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 and their rising prices make the beech forests of increasing economic importance. Or L. Cockayne, F.H.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 behaviour of the various beeches in the forest is very imperfectly known, so that the silvicultural treatment required to secure beech regeneration and a maximum and sustained yield of timber cannot at present be laid down. Or Cockayne's investigations will supply this deficiency. Since the beautiful blue poukaka ha* been protected that native bird is multiplying very rapidly in the marsh lands round Napier. The birds are extremely plentiful, and some of them are quite tame.