COMING TIMBER FAMINE.
Forestry experts all over the world look with grave anxiety to the future of the timber indu c try. We should therefore lose ro time in making our Forestry Department a much more important department of the State than heretofore. Its declining revenue should be replenished, its work extended and developed, and its oper ations guided by experts Measures should be taken to prevent the wild waste of timber that still too often precedes settlement, and to check the destruction of bush where settlement ij unlikely to be profitable. Par- , liament, says the Christehurch '"Press," will neglect the public interest if it does not, during the present session, take energetic steps to atone for the indifference of the past
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9638, 2 November 1909, Page 4
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122COMING TIMBER FAMINE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9638, 2 November 1909, Page 4
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