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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2674, 21 January 1916, Page 9

Thai the erstwhile extensive kauri areas of the Northern Wairoa aJe approaching complete decimation is instanced by tlie fact tliat tlio last log wi the Mangakaliia is expected to be delivered into tlio main stream wifcnm twelve montlis, states tlio "North Auckland Times." The closure of Mangakahia as a log-producing territory will be followed by that of Kirikopuni, and then all logging activity will be centred in the Kailm Valley, where somo £0,000,000 feet of mixed milling timbers arc available. Beyond tlio Kailui \ alley is, of course, the Waipmia State Forest, which contains close on 100,000,000 feet of kauri, and 100,000,000 feet of other timbers, wlticli will all probably be brought into Wairoa waters. Speaking at the official opening of the new steam laundry at the Waikato Hospital last week, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. G. W. Russell, said his memory that day carried him back to the year 18S6, the date of the passing of the Hospital Boards Act. At that time lie was a rcsidont of Cambridge, which, lio was prepared to say now, was one of the most beautiful towns in the Dominion, and he was ono of the delegates appointed By tlie people of that borough to visit Hamilton in reforcnce to the erection of the vqr.v hospital which was now doing service as an old men's home. Now, thirty years afterwards, lie was present as a Minister of the Crown in a National Government at the ceremony of setting in motion at the Waikato Hospital some «t 'hi (jflem HwhtHew it'hleh lbs wart jnodism sciMica could davisa.