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ELPIDf0 Y, PRESIiJENT
/TDDRESS OF HIS EXC ON THE COI BUREAUOF'
sARIcEr.lrtsR4Tlqjj 9l_ilqi-t'i : IUANILA HOTELON APRIL
14, 1950
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I wish to extend to you ray heartfelt on this
congratul-ations
of the Bureau of Forestryr
golden anniversary
to the personnel of
f address myself most specially
the bureau, from the hunblest laborer
to the directort
who have spent a1I the years of thei.r productive
enjoys the confidence
service that
to develop a forest
lives
of our people. It
is of record that
rnany of you have rendered
or rnore years of continuous and faithful
thirty
to the Bureau of Forestry ing for
better
without
opportunlties
of your devotion
iSIiJu
nent to the ideals
any thought of look-
outside.
This is proof
an<l of your tenacious
of the forestry
I render the hornageof a graLeful
service
attachTo you
professlon.
people for work well
.11
done.JfIn forest
the husbanding of our natural
conservation
stands paramount, inasuuch as the
suoply of wood, the building maintenance of proper clinatic servation
of rainfall,
up of the soll , the conditions,
In ny extensive '*kt""
hiLls
to a great extento
tours which have brought me aII
the co untry [ha s given ne no little ",,'\
the con-
and the development of the
community depend upon the forests ,
resources,
over
pain to see baren
and mountainsf where once stood majestlc
forests.