AFFORESTATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10408, 31 August 1911, Page 4

AFFORESTATION.

Most .people will agree with the ''Eweming Post" when jdt says .that of ' members of Parijiamianit have iany time to ispaw from their party bickering .they may find isotae "useful employment in a perusal of :ithe amnfaial afforestation .report, of which ' wo give some extracts. The report •framkliy istaites that the arbor policy is "purely utilitarian," in a restricted isemse of the word "utilitarian." Tho imaim purpose of the work, it is istfated, is to have plantations to supply timber iin (the, future when the native trees 1 in l the moling areas have beenj cut out. It is estimated thatt in' three or four decades New Zealand's iforeisits will island no mone lordly trunks it© the (mills. Pilantatdonis to help to isiupply a want that will inevitably be felt aire, of course, meoeissairy, but this is only one. branch of ■afforestation. The natural Jranottion of trees, and a very important function, is no* to supply (timber ■• for dwelling places or other purpostesi. The; tree's matiural function, is to live for the pi©rmanient good of a country rather than to die for the itiemporary profit of .a section. .