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IN a recent number of NATURE (Feb. 14, p. 255) attention was directed to the organisation known as the New Zealand Timber Growers' Association, of New Zealand. This body consists of a series of independent private companies engaged in afforestation work as a purely commercial proposition, with funds subscribed by the public on ordinary shareissue terms. These companies have no connexion with the official New Zealand Forest Department but it is already apparent that they will eventually own by far the largest area of artificially formed plantations in the islands. Contrasted with the operations of these companies, already discussed in the note referred to, the Annual Report of the Director of the N.Z. State Forest presents the Government forestry position, which is equally satisfactory. On the subject of afforestation work, the Report states: “New Zealand possesses the largest area of State-owned and State-planted forests in the Empire. The State-owned indigenous forests as at March 31st, 1930, consisted of over 7 million acres. The State Softwood Plantations, in round figures, at the same date, covered 253,600 acres. The total area planted during the 12 months prior to the date mentioned was 56,630 acres. For the current year a further 54,629 acres was programmed for, which would bring the total of New Zealand's State Softwood Plantations at this present date to a figure approximating 308,000 acres. In the year ended March 31st, 1929, the State planted 60,635 acres altogether.”
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Afforestation Programmes of the New Zealand Forest Department. Nature 127, 611 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127611a0
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