The most serious aspect < i the future of the timber industry is the approaching destruction of the kauri forests. They are estimated to contain 1,200,000,000 feet, and at the present rate of conversion will be exhausted in eighteen years. —Hawke's Bay Herald.
Unquestionably, cigarette smoking by children is a pernicious and baneful habit, and should be strongly discountenanced. But a youth of lb or 17 is no longer a child. In many cases, he is a man, with the character and habits of a man. Why, there is in the last Contingent that left our .-bores a sergeant of this age, and a great, strapp ng fellow, he is, too. Imagine him being seized by a policeman on his return, and severely spanked, for smoking the inevitable cigarette. The idea is teo funny for anything. But of such are the laws framed for us by the present Parliament.—Observer.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 227, 3 October 1901, Page 2
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