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the previous year—4,3oo,ooo boxes were of white-pine and 1,000,000 of rimu. During the year there was delivered for butter-box manufacture in North Island factories 9,500,000 board feet of white-pine and' 4,500,000 board feet of rimu from the South Island, and 13,500,000 board feet of white-pine from North Island sources. Section K.—Commercial Afforestation Companies. 110. Inquiries concerning the operations of commercial afforestation companies continue to be received ; these should be addressed to the Commissioner of Stamp Duties, Wellington 0.1. In the Monthly Abstract of Statistics, February, 1941, the Government Statistician has furnished the information that at 31st March, 1940, the total area planted by these companies was .310,441 acres. New planting has again been on a reduced scale, and during the winter of 1940 it is understood that an area of 163 acres in North Auckland was the only new area planted, making a total of 310,604 acres.

APPENDIX I. Changes in State Forest Areas, 1st April, 1940, to 31st March, 1941.

APPENDIX II. Area of State Forest as at 31st March, 1941, and Progress of Reservation of State Forests, 1921-41.

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Additions. Deletions. Conservancy. p erman ent Provisional Permanent Provisional State Forest. State Forest: State Forest: Totals. State Forest: ' ; Totals Ordinary. Ordinary. Ordinary. Ordinary National J Jindowment. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres Acres Auckland ... 3,867 3,658 7,525 49 233 282 Rotorua .. 833 1,267 2,100 Wellington ,. 83,621 .. 83,621 Nelson .. 14,045 !,72O 15,765 .. Westland .. 146,996 1,680 151,676 .. 1239 1 315 2 554 Canterbury .. 53,168 .. 53,168 48 .. ' '48 Southland . . 598 . . 598 21 . 21 Totals .. 303,128 11,325 314,453 118 1,472 1,315 ~*2,905 * All withdrawn for settlement purposes.

Permanent State Forest. Provisional State Forest. Percentage of r, Land Area Conservancy. Totals . Ordinary. Endow- Ordinary. _ iNatiOnal State Forest men*. Endowment. Reservation. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres Auckland .. 388,248 ■ 89,789 127,527 14,006 619 570 7-2i Rotorua .. 623,226 289,939 136,319 63,108 1 112 ', 592 14-09 Wellington .. 973,642 37,308 27,463 7,634 1,046 047 8-65 Nelson .. 754,659 177,573 884,215 586,228 34-29 Westland .. 912,414 354,110 360,449 230,762 1,857,735 48-08 Canterbury . . 486.260 3,647 . . 489 907 4 • 92 Southland .. 529,678 56,234 633,901 13,740 1,233* 553 7-27 Totals as at 4,668,127 1,008,600 2,169,874 915,478 8,762,079 13^20~ 31st March, v —y ' * v , > 1941 Percentage Percentage of Total. of Total. Totals for 1941 5,676,727 64-8 3,085,352 35-2 8 762 079 13-20 Totals for 1936 4,043,693 51-1 3,866,479 48-9 7'9io'l72 11-91 Totalsforl931 2,126,837 27-4 5,634,329 72-6 7 761 166 11-69 Totals for 1926 1,866,990 24-7 5,686,700 75-3 7'553'690 11-38 Totals for 1921 1,668,319 24-5 5,134,651 75-5 6'802'970 10-25