PRISON LABOUR.
It is estimated by the Director of Forests, on data supplied in New Zealand (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph) that tree-jplantirig by prison labour in that country has cost a.n average of £3 18s 9d per acre, or 1.57 farthing per established tree- an ' 'exceptionally economical" initial cost for., afforestation work. The director estimates that the crops,. covering 9835 acres, will maturejn Jfroin 36 to 50 years, "and in will, be thinned down to about 100 trees to (the -acre, „ The sale 0f... thinning* should more than pay for cost, of all future treament, so tihat, hy taking even as low a value as 5s per matured tree, the gross return from sales of timber would represent a sum of about £390,000 during thjj next 50 years."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10248, 26 May 1911, Page 4
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129PRISON LABOUR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10248, 26 May 1911, Page 4
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