NEW ZEALAND FORESTS.
Mr Matthews, the Chief Forester, calculated three years ago that we are now using at least twelve times as much timber per year as our State Forestries on the present basis will be able to produce fifty years hence. This one fact makes it clear that the New Zealand Government has still a great deal to do before it can fairly claim to have risen to the full height of its responsibilities in this respect, says the Auckland "Star," and when we remember the immense amount of injury inflicted indirectly upon a country through the loss of its forrests, the reduction of its rainfall, the denudation of its hills and the consequent damage from floods, we may well wonder that our statesmen have not directed more attention towards a problem or such pressing urgency as afforestation, more especially as it offers a handsome return for the investment ot public money without much risk of failure.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3100, 25 January 1909, Page 4
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158NEW ZEALAND FORESTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3100, 25 January 1909, Page 4
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