FORESTRY CONFERENCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3882, 7 August 1928, Page 17

FORESTRY CONFERENCE.

GREAT BRITAIN’S DELEGATES,

WELLINGTON, July 31.

Amon" the passengers from Sydney by the Marama to-day was Major R. D. Furse (private secretary to the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, who will attend the Empire Forestry conference at Canberra in September. Major Furse, who was met on arrival by Mr E. Phillips Turner (director ol forestry), and Mr C. A. Berendsen (Imperial affairs officer of the Prime Minister’s Department), has come to New Zealand in the meantime to discuss certain matters with the Prime Minister-

Major Furse said to-day that lie had left England in April, and that he preferred not to discuss his business in the Dominion. Regarding the Empire Forestry Conference he said it would be attended by delegates from all parts of the Empire, and among those from Grer.t Britain would be Lord Clinton (chairman of the British Forestry Commission), Mr R. L. Robinson (Technical Commissioner of Forestry), Professor Troup (director of the Imperial Forestry Institution), Mr Oliphant, (chairman of the Forest Products Research Board), Sir William Furse (director of the Imperial Institute) father of Major Furse, Sir Peter Clutterbuck (inspector-general of forestry in India) and other representatives froin India and Burma, Canada, South Africa, Ceylon, Kenya, Tanganyika territory, Nigeria, Cyprus and other parts of the Empire, in addition to Australia and New Zealand.

After the conference in Australia the delegates will arrive in New Zealand on October 8, and will visit Auckland, Rotorua and Wellington.