A Forest Magazine.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1922, Page 3

A Forest Magazine.

The latest addition to the periodicals of this Dominion is “The Forest Maga- i zinc of New Zealand,” a quarterly pub- j lication edited by Mr Will Lawson. [ The first number will make its appear- j mice on the first of next month, and ! an advance copy has been forwardedj to us for review. It contains a number j ! of special articles dealing with forestry affairs, and a. series of graphs showing the rapid rate at which New Zealand is being denuded of its timber resources. Tn 1840, for instance, 30,000,00(1 j acres or 45.4 per, cent, of tbe area, of j these islands was forested. To-day the forest area is reduced to 7,500,000 acres, or 1.1.3 per cent, of the total area. In ’> 1950 it is predicted, New Zealand will c possess, at the present rate of defores- ' tat ion, no forests whatever, and will e have to follow th 0 example of older " countries which are now compelled to 0 spend millions on artificial tree-plant-!1 ‘ dig without any hope of aii immediate n return. Tho alternative, of course, is e a combined policy of forest eonservaIs tionj and reafforestation, and it is to popularise this policy that the quarterly has been founded. The aim is a worthy on©, a.nd wo wisli Tt every success.— ■ f . Lyttelton Times.