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western propagandist, and to engage a children's lecturer. 

 The latter would give his entire time to school addresses in all 

 parts of Canada, and would make generous use of motion 

 pictures. In this way scores of thousands of young men and 

 women annually would become personally acquainted with the 

 interesting truths of forest protection and the constructive hand- 

 ling of the natural resources. An appeal will be made for 

 better financial support of the Forestry Association, which has 

 a small Government revenue and a national membership 

 of 10,000. 



State Forestry in New Zealand. 



The issue of the New Zealand paper called The Dominion, for 

 24th September last, contains the following interesting article: — 



"Last session it was announced that it was intended to place 

 the State forests under the control of a separate Minister, and in 

 November last this intention was given effect to by the appoint- 

 ment of the Hon. the Attorney-General as Commissioner of 

 State Forests. 



" By section 34 of the War Legislation and Statute Law 

 Amendment Act, 1918, statutory authority was granted for — 

 (r) sawmilling and the purchase or hire of sawmills by the 

 Government; (2) the State to purchase private lands for forestry 

 purposes; (3) the setting apart of Crown lands as provisional 

 State forests; (4) taking lands for forestry purposes under the 

 Public Works Act; (5) limiting or prohibiting the export of 

 timber from New Zealand ; and (6) prohibiting the sale of or the 

 granting of licences to cut or sell standing timber on public or 

 private lands except subject to conditions to be prescribed. 



"An area of about 1,800,000 acres has since been proclaimed 

 State forests under that authority. Additional areas will be 

 proclaimed as soon as the necessary maps are completed. It 

 must be understood that the setting aside of provisional State 

 forests is not a final reservation. As soon as the necessary 

 arrangements can be made, the reserves will be inspected, and 

 such lands as are found to be more suitable for settlement than 

 for retention under forest will be made available for settlement. 

 The total area of State forests and provisional State forests is 

 now about 3,273,000 acres, but of this area a large proportion 

 does not bear timber of milling value, and a proportion is 

 treeless mountain land. Taking a mean between the proportion 



