PRESS COMMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1928, Page 4

PRESS COMMENTS.

It goes without saying that until milling methods which will ensure regeneration of the forest have been devised and tried out in this country, valuable areas, both of commercial forest and of rain forest should he left alone. But experience throughout'the world demonstrates: that forests rail he improved immensely by being milled systematically under a proper work irlg plan. There is no reason whatever for supposing that Xow Zealand forest is an exception to this rule, 'flic weakness and danger of the existing position is that little, apparently, is being done to ascertain and conditions under which cur native forests will yield continuing crops of timber. This is a matter to which the Government must give early and earnest attention, unless it is prepared to see irreplaceable national assets of immense value fritted away as heedlessly as even greater assets of the same kind have been in the past.— “Wnirarapa Age.”

The prospects for our main products are decidedly good, good enough at any rate to encourage enterprise in greater production, which a lower haulrate would help. Every day we are getting into a sounder position. Another year like the last will place us in a. very good position indeed, but a : relapse into over-importation and general extrnvgaiiee is to he avoided. What is. wanted is easier finance' for genuine productive enterprise. The , hanks are accumulating money and in the Ordinary course of husine- • they 1 will probably redo-e their rates in the near future. That much is to he deduced from the last quarter's returns. "Taranaki 1 fora Id."' Those who wish to chug to the Arbitration Act must make no their minds Unit they .nil! eoniiuve to see am! to deplore the consequent os of keeping industry in a si i iii-waistcoat. the ooni rente has failed, so far as it has gone. Jo supply any previously unknown or nuconsiderod reasons why the Act should remain, or why it should not he wholly replaced by the Labour Disputes Investigation Act.—Christchurch “ Press.”