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Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1920, Page 10 (Supplement)

"The American lumber forests," said Mr. C. Odlin, a Wellington business man who has just returned from a visit o America, "were really wonderful. I motored through one redwood forest on California for 150 miles all the way on a concrete road. Our forests here could not compare with them. There is no replanting necessary, the firs replanting themselves. The greatest care, however, is exercised in their preservation, and the utmost precautions enforced against destruction by devasting fires. The system they adopt shows the American mind. All through the summer aeroplanes wheel overhead, observing for fires. Should any break out, extinguishing bombs are dropped. Along the roads and highways are posted conspicuous notices informing the public that the law empowers foresters, of whom there are many to call upon anyone at any time to a«sist in fighting fires if they occur.'-