STILL AT LIBERTY.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20178, 5 March 1931, Page 15

STILL AT LIBERTY.

. « (FKSBS ASSOCIATION TKLBGIUM.) t AUCKLAND, March 4. The prisoners who made a daring escape yesterday from Mt. Eden gaol have not been recaptured. A series of burglaries in the country southwards is reported and attributed to them.

For many years no hardwoods have been planted in State Forest plantations, for several reasons, says the Director of Forestry, Mr E. Phillips Turner,. in a review of afforestation work in New Zealand. Of the world's timber requirements about 80 per cent, are softwoods. With the eribeption of eucaJypts, most of the valuable -hardwoods require a longer rotation and also better soil than' the conifers now being planted. There are already in the Do-, minion large areas of forest which contain hardwoods suitable for many pur-, poses for which the latter timber is superior to softwoods. In New Zealand most of the valuable eucalypts are subject to serious insect attacks, and, in any case, eucalyptus timbers are easily, procurable from the Australian States. A further point Mr Turner makes is thai fabricated boards and other conu binations will in the future be largely used in substitution for sawn timber, and softwoods are more suitable than hardwoods for making the cellulose from which the fabricated board types are made.