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Session 11. 1918. NEW ZEALAND.

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEY: STATE FORESTRY. REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1918.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of TI is Excellency.

CONTENTS. PART I.—STATE NURSERIES AND PLANTATIONS. Report of the StrPBEIOTBNBIKO Nurseryman fob the South Island— continued. Report or the Under-Secretary fob Lands. p a g e Page General ~ _ _ _ .. 20 Trees raised and Area planted .. .. ..-2 Dusky Hill Plantation .. .. .. .. 21 Prison Labour.. .. .. .. ..2 Tapanui Nursery .. .. .. ..21 State Assistance to Farmers in Troe-planting .. 2 Conical Hills Plantation ... .. .. 24 Sale of Thinnings .. .. .. .. 2 Pukerau Plantation .. .. .. . . 25 Grazing Stock on Fire-breaks . . .. .. 2 Greenvalo Plantation .. .. .. .. 25 Receipts and Expenditure (Statement of Accounts) 2 Ranfurly Nursory .. .. .. .. 20 Shortage of Labour .. .. .. .. 3 Naseby Plantation .. .. .. .. 29 Employment of Discharged Soldiers .. .. 3 Gimmorburn Plantation .. .. ..:{() Survey's and Plans of Plantations .. .. 3 Hanmer Springs Nursery .. . .. ,'!1 Balance-sheet for Plantations .. .. .. 3 Hanmer Springs Plantation .. .. . . 88 Summary of Operations in Nurseries, Year 1917-18.. 4 Balmoral Plantation .. .. .. ..34 Summary of Operations in Nurseries, 1890-1918 .. 4 Summary of Operations in, Plantations, Year 1917-18 5 PART [I.—NATIVE FORESTS. Summary of Operations in Plantations, 1896-1018.. (> Output from Mills gg Export of Native Timbers ... .. .. :S(i Report of the Superintending! Nurseryman for Imports of Timbers .. .. .. .. 30 THE North Island. Revenue received from Royalties and Sales of Native General Remarks 7 Timbers . . .. .. 30 labour 7 Increase m Prices or limber .. .. .. :j(> Tree seeds 7 Importance of Timber .. .. 36 Sale of Trees to' Farmers' '.'. '.'. '. .' 7 Forest By-produots and Researoh .. .. 37 Prison Labour 7 N°w Uses for Nat.ye I imbcrs :S7 Revenue 8 forest Hn 38 Cost of Plantations .. ..8 ores * PeBt ?-' . • ■-.... ■• , •• •"« G-neral 8 ow J Test Reservations and Withdrawals from Balance-sheets:! '.'. '.'. '.'. '.'. 8 ' **f^ ions . .. _ .. 38 Rotorua Nursery 10 Out P ut of Timber for the Year 1917-18 .. .. 38 Whakarewarewa Plantation '.'. '.'. '.'.12 Roturn f<™H Value, HjdKinde of Timber Waiotapu Plantation 14 ™P"rted and Duty collocted, 1918 39 Kaingaroa Plains Plantation 16 R<!tllm f" win « Qj»Mlt%. Value, and[Kinds of Timber PuMpuhi Plantation 10 exported and Duty ooUeoted, 1918 . .. 39 . Extraots from Reports by Commissioners of Crown r, „ Lands— Report of the Superintending Nurseryman for Auckland 39 the South Island. Taranaki '.'. '.'.40 Employment of Returned Soldiers 17 Hawke's Bay .. .. .. ..41 Sources of Revenue .. .. .. ..17 Wellington .. .. .. .. ..41 Romarks on Tree-raising Work .. .. ..17 Marlborough .. .. .. ..42 Extension of Plantations . . .. 18 Nelson .. .. .. .. .. 42 Trees for Farmers .. .. . . ..19 Canterbury .. .. .. .. , .. 43 Grazing Proposition, and Remarks on Fire-breaks .. 19 Westland .. .. .. .. ..44 Survey Work .. ... .. .. ..19 Otago .. .. .. .. .. 44 Diseases in Plantations .. .. .. .. 20 Southland .. . . ~ .. .. 45

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