LAND FOR FORESTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1924, Page 4

LAND FOR FORESTS.

CONSERVATION REQUESTED. FINANCE THE DIFFICULTY. By Telegraph.— Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A request that a fund should be created for the resuiqption of lands for State forests was made by a deputation from the Forestry League to Mr. Massey and Sir Heaton Rhodes (Commissioner of State Forests) to-day. The league feared that the lower lands were going to suffer from the loss of timber on the higher levels. In the Wellington conservation region about fifteen million acres will be required' to be taken. The owners of private land were anxious to sell. Mr. Massey said a million acres were available for the purpose. He agreed something in the way of re-afforestatioa was necessary, and settlers should be encouraged to plant trees suitable for marketing. There was a growing need for white pine for butter boxes, and he would obtain a report as fo the areas available. Whatever was done must be, practical. The Hon. Sir H. Rhodes was sympathetic. Finance, he said, was the (fifliculty, and they had not the money to buy up land wholesale.