YOUNG KAURIS
BEING USED FOR MINE PROPS. PROTEST TO GOVERNMENT. Despite the excessive cutting out of kauri forests in Northland, war is still being waged on young trees, which are - used as props in mines. For- that purpose many kauris, more than half a century old, have been hacked down. In an effort to check this practice, the North Auckland Forest Society has written to Ministers of the Crown suggesting that the slaughter is certainly not necessary. “Here in the north,” it is stated, "wattle grows with such amazing rapidity that in seven years, planted from seed, it would provide 'suitable material for mine props.- The work cf planting could bo carried out in the vicinity of mines throughout New Zealand, thus saving transport costs. There would thus be provided as well an avenue for the permanent profitable employment of numbers of our countrymen.” The executive of the Forest and Bird Protection Society has adopted a resolution strongly supporting the protest .against tlhe needless shorte sighted felling of young kauris.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1939, Page 2
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170YOUNG KAURIS Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1939, Page 2
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