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ANNEXURES.

ANNEXURE I.—STATE AND PROVISIONAL STATE FORESTS AND FOREST RESERVES. Area in Acres at End of Fiscal Year 1925.

Permanent and provisional State forests and forest reserves under Service control comprise 11-3 per cent, of the total area of the Dominion. Total area of State forest and provisional State forest and forest reserves at 31st March, 1925, 7,485,590 acres.

ANNEXURE IT.—SUMMARIZED REPORT UPON STATE FORESTATION OPERATIONS TN THE NORTH ISLAND, (By H. A. Go ill) ik, Conservator of Forests, Rotorua Conservation Region.) Extension of Plantations. The extension work (hiring the year on the Kaingaroa Plains was most satisfactory, an area of 8,434 acres being planted with 5,504,070 trees. The principal species used were pondosa pine, Corsican pine, insignis pine, and Douglas fir, while some twenty-nine thousand eiicalypts were planted experimentally. Notch planting was again used, and the results have been entirely satisfactory. The labour-cost was only Bs. lid. per acre, and the total cost, including trees, £1 Bs. lid. per acre. The death-rate averaged about 8 per cent. Splendid growth has been made by all species planted. A trial planting was made over a 300-acre block with some two hundred thousand seedling Douglas fir, and the results to date are very satisfactory, the death-rate being only 5 per cent. The use of seedling trees means a very considerable saving in cost. Direct-sowing Experiment. Young trees are making good growth and the position, as disclosed by a count made in December, 1924, is as follows : —

Area in Acres at End of Fiscal Area in Acres at End of Fiscal Year | Year 1924. j Net Increase in Acres. 192R " 3 3 3 ot3 •gB d -g Land District. ; ; j j j — _f * §, |8 1 I s n a ° w I Provisional Forest i State Pr °oTft}2 nal Forest „ t t v t | Provisional Forest State Forest. g tate Fores t. Reserves. Forest. forest 4 te Fo es ! State Forest. Ecserves. Sagoo ! i 1 I 1 1 & N. Auckland.. 104,809 44,032 .. 892 13,740 .. 105,701 57,772 .. 3-6 Auckland .. 151,228 625,768 2,316 72,982 154,765* .. 224,210 471,003 2,316 8-5 Gisbornet .. 87,696} 208,609} 11,160+ 87,696 208,609 11,160 8-7 Hawke's Bav 200,824 53,735 16,414 87,696* 52,235* 11,160* 113,128 1,500 5,254 4-1 Taranaki .. 69,500 43,026 40,594 3 171 .. 69,503 43,197 40,594 6-3 Wellington .. 456,671 144,808 14,105 1 536} 98} 456,672 144,272 14,007 8-7 Nelson .. 19,955 1,988.478 8,470 759} 55,497} .. 19,196 1,932,981 8,470 41-6 Marlborough.. 89,497 120,625 12,062 .. .. .. 89,497 120,625 12,062 8-0 Westland .. 2,187 1,714,022 119 3 2,238} .. 2,190 1,711,784 119 44-4 Canterbury .. 310,717 .. 319 9,304 .. .. 320,021 .. 319 34 Otaco " .. 133,107 334,012 2,108 .. 1,111 .. 133,107 335,123 2,108 5 1 Southland .. 136,349 593,324 .. 1,243 10,478 .. 137,592 603,802 .. 94 Totals .. 1,674,844 5,661,830 96,507 83,669 31,162} 98}1,758,513 5,630,668 96,409 * Net decrease due mainly to allocation to Gisborne Land District. t Not included in previous reports. | Net decrease.

. , f ! Number of Number of r , . Amount 01 Total geed Arpa | Trees Trees Species. | Date sown. t. eet used. covered. per Acre, per Acre, per Acre. 10/3/24. 31/12/24. Lb. Lb. Acres. Douglas fir .. November, 1923.. J 27 36 907 1,960 Insignis pine .. „ ,, . ■ | 52.1 70 513 970 Pondosa»pine .. „ . I I 63 63 169 750