BUTTER BOXES
j'j' The supply of timber for-< butter-boxes 11, Js the subject of a ouestion put to tho [■■ ' Minister in charge of-'forestry-by Mr. Field (Otaki), who asks if,-in [?!: view of. tho fast-diminishing supply of i. ■ whito pine '.timber for butter-boxes, tal,vl lowj casks,, and other purposes, and in (. compliance with the strongly expressed t- desuo of local bodies, dairy farmers, j: , endi'others located on the west coast of kV the North Island, he will without furI tlror delay take such steps as will ensure the' establishment ot large plants- [ • tions of pinus radiata and other suitable ! . trees on'the waste coastal sandy lands t; v frohtinff the South Taranaki Bisht, and ' thns accomplishing; the fourfold "purpose of ; prevention of sand-drift, the abundant future supply of suitable timber, tho I- .-'provision of shelter for tlie more fertile t;, land from the prevailing sea-winds, and f tho absorption of surplus labour in a I work of great national importance.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 299, 13 September 1919, Page 10
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157BUTTER BOXES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 299, 13 September 1919, Page 10
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