FORESTRY IN NEW ZEALAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 228, 1 November 1909, Page 2

FORESTRY IN NEW ZEALAND.

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pay perusal. Part V. deals with alforeetation us it has been essayed in our own Dominion since ISOO. We.have no.v about thirteen thousand acres planted with thirty-three million various trees valuable tor timber purposes. The Plantations will not, however, lie available for another forty years, and by then (at tile present rate of planting) the returns ■w ill not be more Lhan sufficient to supply a fifth of the Tho varieties and nunVbers of trees in "the Slate plantations are enumerated, .0«fllier with their possible uses. The report contains some good pictures of our different liin«'« <tf forests and timber operations, but perhaps the most in foresting are those illustrating the dis-a-!rous'resiilts in China of deforestation o? steep, hillV country. The report deals fully, yet plainly and concisely, with c.-erv aspect of tile timber question, and t.l v fathering anil compilation of all this [valuable information is deserving of tile highest praise. As the Wellington Times points out, the timber industry and af | bretiljitioii must now be recognised as questions of urgent- importance. These wt cannot, in onr own and our «ue-Cf-sors' interests, afford to neglect. We must treat with greater care and more economy the forctUs we have left, and mini omnark nn much more extensile replanting operations if we arc to avoid A timber famine in the near future.