The Motu Bush.
(To the Editor of the Times.) , bin, —In the present time of thoughtful consideration of our water and drainago schemes I fear tho above most important subject may recede into oblivion. I have recently been in personal communication with a resident of the Motu. He informs me that the railway being completed to Karaka only will avail nothing so far as tho Motu timber is concerned. Rimu six feet in diameter is being cut down, and if settlement goes on tho whole of the vast resources of this valuable asset will have been destroyed in 10 years. Is it not possible to bring pressure to bear on the Government by every elector personally writing to the Premier and Minister of Lands on tho subject ? Letters poured in upon representatives and inducing all tho Auckland provincial members to interest
themselves in tho matter must help forward the consideration of tho prosecution of the railway boyond Karaka so as to tap the Motu timber before it has all been felled. Supineness and indifference at tho present time appears little short of criminal under such pressing circumstances.—l am, etc., J. Peckover.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 164, 23 July 1901, Page 3
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191The Motu Bush. Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 164, 23 July 1901, Page 3
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