The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 27th, 1925. PENALISING WESTLAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1925, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 27th, 1925. PENALISING WESTLAND.

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further. Mr Anderson oflcrod m.thing in exchange. Westland is to he sacrificed for the unborn millions. We venture to say that Ministers have paid too much attention to one side of the story, and it is time Westland set about a propaganda effort to expound its case. This would lie in the direction of showing the fallacy and loss of the present policy, and il after the enlightenment which could he given, the Government failed to realise the position, then Westland penalised on the one hand should have greater consideration in other directions to aid its expansion, and bring to the people who have lived on here hopeful for better days, some prospect of realising their hopes as to local advancement. When we consider what the West Coast has done for the rest of New Zealand with its mineral bounty ; when we remember how the .gold rushes brought to these shores the finest stamp of loyal citizens, worthy founders of a new nation, it is a poor return indeed now, to see a district such as this which played so great a part in drawing population to Hie young colony, treated as it is being treated under the Government prohibition policy affecting our timber trade. Mostland is a vast forest area, and tinder normal and more restricted trading conditions it would take many .veins to cut out tlie standing timber. In the past GO years that milling lias been in progress the area eut out is not great, and some local mills have been in operation all that time without exhausting the lmsh within a reasonable radius of the sawmill. The people of New Zealand, we arc persuaded, do not realise the great tracts of standing timber on the Coast. Did they do so. they would laugh at these who who have been predicting that decades were going to cut out the forests Yet the people who come after us will be told that the timber is not for them, it is for posterity. Truly on such lines, tbc folk to enjoy the profit from Westland's forests, are still unborn.