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The attached graph shows the quantities of the various species comprised in Forest Service timbersales for the last two years.

Graph 3. —Statistics of the Service Timber-sales for the Years ended 31st March, 1928 and 1929. (Quantities shown in feet, board measure.)

9. Forest Extension. Sale of Trees and Seeds. Although the attention hitherto given to this work was somewhat relaxed last year, there was but little falling-off in the total sales of trees and seeds. For the reasons mentioned in last year's report, an even greater decline would not have been surprising, and notwithstanding the keen private competition now existing, and the extensive afforestation being undertaken by public and private tree-planting companies, &c., the tree stock and seed supplied by the Service still find a ready sale. In addition to the figures quoted in the appended table, a total of 1,679,000 trees was transferred from Eotorua Nursery and 446,000 from Westland Nursery for planting in other regions, as well as 462 lb. of seed, the great bulk of which came from Eotorua. As in the past, small packets of seeds were distributed to State schools throughout the Dominion, and this accounted for another 210 lb.

TABLE 7.

Graph 4. —Comparison of Forest Service Sales of Young Forest Trees from 1922 to 1929.

GRAPH 5.—COMPARISON OF FOREST SERVICE SALES of Forest-tree Seeds from 1922 to 1929.

v Trees for planting. Forest-tree Seeds. v , Trees for planting. Forest-tree Seeds. (Number.) (Weight in Pounds.) ear " (Number.) (Weight in Pounds.) I . I . II I - - ' 1920 i 277,235 | 130 1925 2,831,932 2,529* 1921 520,702 ! 210 ; 1926 1 4,226,174 2,692* 1922 , 897,552 436 i 1927 | 4,760,490 3,861* 1923 1,475,581 746 1 1928 3,481,398 2,156* 1924 ! 1,839,512 618 j 1929 : 3,260,916 2,035* * Includes domestic and overseas sales.