RAPID-GROWTH TIMBER

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 41, 11 May 1927, Page 11

RAPID-GROWTH TIMBER

QUALITY NOT IMPAIRED

AMERICAN VISITOR’S VIEW

The view that the phenomenally growth of foreign trees in reafforestation areas in the Dominion is ®ot detrimental to the quality of the timber so grown was expressed by AIr * R- S. Streets, a prominent timber expert of California, in an interview yesterda v.

Mr. Streets said he was diffident about giving an opinion on matters arrecting forestry in this country, folding the belief that his brief acquaintance with timber production in Aew Zealand did not entitle him to Pronounce an opinion. He has. however, had a wide experience of other Parts of the w’orld where climatic conditions are similar to those obtaining here. “My own experience is that timber grown in climates corresponding to mat of New Zealand is that the quadoes not suffer as the result of me ready growth of the forests,” said r* r * Streets. “The same thing occurs n parts of South Africa, where cer- :**[} Bpecies of trees brought from -aiifornla have shown remarkable growth, yet the quality of the wood ec *ual to that of the timber grown m our own country.”