FORESTRY CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1920, Page 5

FORESTRY CONFERENCE.

FIRST IMPERIAL MEETING. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Londbn, July 7. Representatives from all parts of the Empire attended the first meeting of the Imperial Forestry Conference at the Guildhall. Lord Lovat, in his opening address, pointed out that the timber imports into the United Kingdom in 1910 reached the colossal figure of £75,000,000, and they would probably approach 90 or 100 millions in 1920. 'Before the War 10,000,000 tons of timber products were imported into the United Kingdom, representing a tonnage space equal to that required for the whole grain imports and exceeding that required by all other foodstuffs, together with cotton and wool. Of all the European nations Britain had the smallest area of State foVestav i Sir Thomas Mackenzie and Messrs Mack ay and Lanepool participated in the Forestry Conference. Sir Thomas Mackenzie sai'd that, but for conservation, kauri would be exhausted within seven years, while now it was expected to last 25 yearn. Mr. Mackay said that Australia was backward in afforestation. Liberal Federal and State appropriations were required to safeguard the forests, but were not obtainable, owing to war indebtedness. W t