ALAS, TOO TRUE!
THAT the desire to “get rich quick” was to some extent dominating forestry planting in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa was a statement made by Sir Arthur W. Hill, director of Kew Gardens, London, at the annual dinner of the Royal English Forestry Society. He said: “A more deplorable destruction of beauty and scenery than in such countries as New Zealand and Australia I have never seen. The neglect of native trees in the desire to raise quick growing pines is changing the face of these countries, and great risk is being run that native trees and vegetation will gradually disappear.” Dr. Cockayne, who was well called the Empire’s greatest botanist, was of like mind to Sir Arthur Hill in regretting the disappearance of our forests. Unhappily, such men have never been in a position to decide forest policy. What a difference it would have made to the country, in wealth and area of indigenous timberlands, had a Hill or Cockayne been head of our State forest service twenty or thirty years ago!
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Forest and Bird, Issue 44, 1 May 1937, Page 11
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