WHITE PINE FORESTS.
A Very peculiar Charge. Wellington, This Day. Beattie, secretary of the National Dairy Association, waited on the Ministar of Lands to-day in reference to the scarcity of white pine for butter boxes. He said some millers wore sending this timber away to Australia at 3s 9J per 100 feet, as against Gs Gd charged i* New Zealand. lie asked whether Government could not interfere in the matter. Duncan did not sec that Government could interfere with millers, but promised with a view of conserving the forests to got the various Commissioners of Grown Lands to report on areas still available. In selling white pine land at Dannevirke lately it was not intimated that purchasers were required to clear off the timber with the usual rapidity, but would bo allowed time to utilise the bush for milling purposes, and the same conditions would apply elsewhere.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 25 March 1901, Page 3
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147WHITE PINE FORESTS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 25 March 1901, Page 3
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