Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1924. MAIN HIGHWAYS THROUGH FOXTON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2697, 19 February 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1924. MAIN HIGHWAYS THROUGH FOXTON.

THE Mayor is to he commended tor guarding against any attempt, to divert the main highway away from Foxton. It is rumoured I hat an attempt may he made to divert the main highway at a point between Levin and Foxton. In order to

guard against this, a deputation will wait upon the chairman of the No. 9 District Highway Conned. We do not, however, entertain any fear that. Foxton will He sidetracked as the engineer to the Highways Board has already recommended the highways route through Foxton. In support of this Hie engineer communicating with the llorowhenua Connlv Council at its last meeting said:- “On the LevinFoxton road, there was a ,-hort turn about three-quarters of a mile on the Levin side of the Whirokino Bridge. This might he avoided by a; cut through the ridge." That firings the main highway right to our boundary. After crossing the Whirokino Bridge (within the Manawalu County Council’s area) the engineer has suggested a deviation to avoid the road which runs parallel with the Main Drain. The route through Foxton and on to Rangilikei is not only, the shortest, but the most suitable between Wellington and Taranaki and to sanction a deviation to the east from Levin, in our opinion, would not receive serious consideration by the nnthorit ies. AFFORESTATION PRINCIPLES. SEVERAL recommendations as to New Zealand’s future forestry policy are made by the Director of Forestry, Captain MMntosh Ellis, in a report which be has furnished to the Government in respect to the proceedings of the Empire Forestry Conference in Canada: —“New Zealand leads in State forest dedication procedure,” says the director. “It leads in afforestation practice, in timber sale administraton, in the extent of communal forestry, and in forestry taxation. There is need, however, of the application of applied forestry principles, and for the establishment of a forest school for the provision of trained men. There is extravagance in New Zealand in woods exploitation practice, for millions of tons of wood are being wasted every year. An experimental wood drying kiln and a properly equipped forests laboratory are needed. New Zealand must grow her own wood supplies or go without. In view of the fact that our national producing tones t capital is barely sufficient to supply our own present and reasonable future needs, and in view of the alarming decrease in the world’s visible supply of standing timber, I unreservedly endorse the policy of restriction of timber export. Unrestricted export will only mean higher prices in the domestic market, and actual limber famine in such timber as kauri.”