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of the New Zealand Forestry League, as he recognized that some such 

 body is essential to sustain the interest of the public in a matter which,, 

 unfortunately, is liable to be thought to concern our successors more than 

 ourselves. 



Whilst in New Zealand Sir David devoted the whole of his time to the 

 study of forestry in this country, and when not in the field inspecting 

 native forests and plantations he was writing on those matters. Before 

 his death the Government had published his Report on the Waipoua Kauri 

 Forest (1918), and Part I of Forestry in New Zealand (1919), and up till 

 the time that he passed away he was engaged in writing Part II of this 

 latter work. 



For forestry in the British Empire probably no one has done such service 

 as Sir David Hutchins, and it was for this that he in 1920 received the 

 honour of knighthood, which, in connection with forestry, had previously 

 been conferred only on three official heads of the great Indian Forest 

 Service. His published works were numerous, including, besides those 

 mentioned above, Report on Transvaal Forestry, 1903 ; Report on Rhodesia 

 Forestry, 1904 ; Extra-tropical Forestry, 1906 ; Forests of Mount Keria, 

 1907 ; Report on Forests of British East Africa, 1909 ; Cyprus Forestry, 

 1909 ; and others. 



He died at his residence, Khandallah, on the 11th November, 1920. 



E. Phillips Turner. 



