REPORT ON NEW ZEALAND FORESTRY. 
ore Department of Forestry, Wellington, 30th October, 1919. 
I have the honour to submit herewith a report by Mr. D. E. 
Hutchinson New Zealand forestry. 
Mr. Hutchins graduated at L’Kcole Nationale des Haux et Foréts, 
Nancy, France, in 1872, and afterwards joined the Indian Forest Service. 
After serving ten years in India he joined the Forest Department of 
Cape Colony, where he remained for twenty-three years. As Con- 
servator of Forests in Cape Colony Mr. Hutchins’s work has been highly 
praised by eminent forest authorities; and his reputation was such that 
he was selected by the Colonial Office to organize a Forestry Department 
for British Hast Africa. He was also chosen by the Colonial Office to 
report on the forests of Cyprus. 
In 1894 he received a medal from the Society of Arts, London, for a 
paper formulating for the British Isles a scheme of national forestry, which 
was substantially the same as that which has during the last year been 
adopted iby the British Government. 
Mr. Hutchins came to Australia in 1914 to attend the meeting of the 
British Association. After the meeting he remained in Australia, and 
wrote a report on Australian forestry for the Western Australian Govern- 
ment. | 
He came to New Zealand in 1916, and has already written a report 
on the Waipoua Kauri Forest. 
In the present report Mr. Hutchins has dealt with his subject in a most 
comprehensive and exhaustive manner; and I need hardly say that the 
opinions of a man of such wide and varied experience, and who at the same 
time is without local prejudices, are deserving of the most thoughtful 
consideration. 
_ Mr. Hutchins has been afforded every facility to fully express his views 
and criticism, regardless as to whether the Departments concerned are in 
agreement with some of his conclusions or are satisfied with the data on 
which some of those conclusions are founded. 
I have, &e., 
K. Puituies Turner, Secretary. 
The Hon. Sir F. H. D. Bell, K.C.M.G., K.C., 
Commissioner of State Forests, Wellington. 
