BUTTER-BOX TIMBER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 916, 8 September 1910, Page 10

BUTTER-BOX TIMBER.

•■'should mm '.-white pine' ! be : 'MS% r :'";::'cpNSERVBD? ■■'.•■ ■;: v : In : ;,t!i©':H6ii3o\'.of .Representatives-rc- ; : ;'; toantly : :MrV. ; .Mal«oliri> M.P.for Olutlia,- ■ iaskbd:tie •SJiiiister;for.Lands jyhbtll'er;': ;'seeingihow^:'ftepjjndent.- the dairydiig: : ith : 3ie:'(^',^'ithbi ; ii|injuring;:dtlior interests iConwraed'''doviSßJ some, way of. conserv-. :'.. ing the iem'aiiiaag supply for .uso: within; -\- } S ' ';V'. , : \(;;' ?■'■'> ' [ : i.'ft'i'Tlie WMinister, \ ■ replying '.• .yesterday, : :-'■ said .that Wpording' to ;carefill. e&tittiates' :j : mde' : ?la*v.V»ai ; -thb remaining' ':]: whitbVpinei {timber .injNew.Zealand/ it 1 -".vras ; :reporfed :i that' 1 there''■was l a/gross ; .; total ■; of ; : 2,586,100,763 Superficial.feet ;■ Sof;'wfeh;-i-,'452,550,640 'superficial; feet .on : . Crow- land, a : •Oarge-portion .is;'.inoluded : .witliiri .mining :"'districts,' .;and : ;.is': available -for mining. J purposes [at'Hhe; discretion; of .the ..war-' is:a-floiir-; vishing.pne, and; lt-.is. inadvisable, to han- ■; 'it'jby'iahy '■':, undue;:interference; ;. TPhiehJwovild : be;inevitable; if; timber: be-' '5 3ongingS;t6 SJJativesr brY.pfiyate'.' persons ■ iytas:? stoDped;:. f rpm r being;: utilised ; i'for. vTOmmeraal|jpu{r^bses.^f Moreover;- / : the 'constant nsEJof : .'localities,: and .such already: been'made so 'ipi^ica^ tliat vhi-^bhe: j ;Vfcrge. : Var^j'Kayb^en. ; ' planted-ibyitli i?ireeS):tiat:fwi]l.; eventually.;; bo" iised ; ':f6r. , ! for iiVwbich' v'&aW^fe.,br::frni^