AFFORESTATION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1586, 1 November 1912, Page 3

AFFORESTATION.

—. . > . . KESOLUTION BY BUILDEKS, , IBj Telctraph.-Ptcss AspopiatloaJ . P.unedin, October 31.'" At the Builders' .Vpde'ration Conference this morning Mr. S..Clark (Auckland) 'lhade a demonstration of 'the'necessity of tho . CTdverument inauguruti.iig a ctntiiiuous policy of afforestation; liot .merely'as ■au experiment. He pointed nuttbat . Government returns'on the decreasing use of timber iiv proportion to. the supply were ■not bot.ne: o'Ufc by'.fact. . In England during the past forty years the use of. timber had increased .200' per. cent,-while. the population' ojily increased i'i 'per cent/; so science was not doing a\viiy. 1 with- the necessity for timber. ' • The cpnfereite'e resolved that' a. memorial be presented to the Government,' asking that l'arliam.ent.tnUe steps to ensure a continuous siipply 'of timber the pominion fur. use ; that the ccnfcrehce set.npa comniitteo to collect information'as'tp the ,lrin.d.s ;.of building, timber 4)est suited to>3S'ew Zealand soils and: climate,, with, a view to urging' Vbo Government 'to plant' such timbers, so that" sohio .provision iiiay. be made to 'meet tho " threatened scarcity of Now 2ealaiuKgrowii timbers. ' It was also resolved that further efforts be maide to secure a reduction of railway freight tin foreign. timbers and other building' materials. It was .pointed out that the cost of freight on. building ffliitfcrial.necessaTy fcr construction was some- : times nearly ,as much iiS the gbods themselves, and the duty on. foreign timbers was a great tax on the farmers. ' Since framing the railway tariff a Variety of new material had been invented, and the charges .were based on the highest rates, amounting, in some casjes. to, 33 per centiim more than on similar'materials in different form. '

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