TIMBER EXPORT.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1724, 23 March 1895, Page 2

TIMBER EXPORT.

The Department of Industries and Commerce is in receipt of another de--1 spatch from Mr Freyburg in London, relating to the export of New Zealand woods for (1) paving purposes, (2) hard wood for wood engraving, (3) wood pulp-for paper-making, (4) for ‘ tanners’J)ark ’'. othor purposes. H£-d*wgr attention of the Government to the fact that there are 2600 miles of street paving in London, excluding the suburbs; and Manchester is said to have 660 miles of paving, while Birmingham has nearly the same and the other cities and town have also established a large amount of wood paving, all of which must be renewed in the next few years. This also applies to the Continental cities of Europe more or less. Hard wood will undoubtedly take the place of soft wood, but even hard wood will only have an average life of 14 years, which means that the greater part of Europe must bo re-paved times in the coming century. To provide this wood, replant- , ing will have to he concurrent with timbor felling, and the colony adopting that plan will have a perennial source of wealth and employment for thousands of industrious men, while the transport, of timbor will employ a commercial marine of great magnitude.