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there were very heavy revenues in the form of bonuses, consequent 

 upon the renewal of timber Hcenses. The forest revenues for the year 

 ended October 31. 1918, aggregate $582,533. This figure inchides 

 $30,555 fi'om the fire-protection tax. The aggregate of forest revenues 

 during the preceding year was $443,848. These figures show the ex- 

 tent to wdiich the Provincial Government is dependent upon its reve- 

 nues from Crown timber lands to meet the expenses of administration 

 of the government. 



The court of governors of the University College of Xorth Wales 

 lately appointed a deputation to wait upon the Board of Agriculture 

 regarding the proposal to have only two schools of forestry in Great 

 Britain — one in Scotland and the other either at Oxford or Cambridge. 

 Fears were expressed that if this was carried into effect it would mean 

 the extinction of the forestry department in connection with the Uni- 

 versity College of Xorth Wales. It was felt that one of the two new 

 schools should be established in Wales, with its large area of forests. — 

 Science, May 30, 1919, p. 516. 



At the last session of the Xew Zealand Parliament £200,000 was 

 voted for forestry, and already £2,000,000 have been sunk in the 32.645 

 acres of plantations of exotics. This great advance is due largely to 

 the influence of Sir James Wilson and of Sir Francis Bell, leader of 

 the legislative council, who now occupies the position of Minister of 

 Forests. Mr. D. E. Hutchins rejoices that the "kauri, the largest and 

 in many respects the most valuable timber-yielding tree of the world, 

 is no lonsfer doomed to extinction." 



Harold S. Xlewins, for more than a year connected with the Aircraft 

 Production Division, with headquarters in X'^ew York, will take up his 

 former work as Professor of Forestry in the Oregon State College this 

 fall. Professor X^ewins has been inspector of dry kilns for the aircraft 

 division and has covered a territory extending from ^Massachusetts to 

 X'orth Carolina. The Oregon School of Forestry is congratulating 

 itself on getting X'^ewins back into the teaching game. 



Apropos of the recent announcement that the Xorwegian Forestry 

 Society plans to provide nursery stock and replant 250 hectares of 

 forest destroved in northern France, the Germans remark that this will 



