"We Must Have Timber"
JONES: I was reading to-day (this is in the year 1890) a gloomy article by a chap who said we were wasting our forests shockingly, and that New Zealand’s coat of arms ought to be an axe and a box of matches. He prophesied all sorts of disasters in the future-shortage of timber, kauri up to £5
a hundred-just think of it, why it’s only a few shillings now — erosion of the soil and ficoding of rivers. Lot of rot it seemed to me. ROBINSON: I’m not so sure. We have wasted a frightful lot of timber. Nature knows her business all right, and she didn’t cover most of this country with forests for nothing. JONES: Oh, but we’ve only been a colony fifty years. and
look at the bush we've still got. Look at the centre of the North Island-why we don’t know how much is there. ROBINSON: That’s where rivers rise, and if we cut the bush down what'll happen to them? JONES: Oh, I think you’re too gloomy. We must have timber. Prosperity can look after itself. -("Background of New Zealand: Sawmilling," prepared by Martin Nestor and F. Sine, 2YA September 9).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 66, 27 September 1940, Page 5
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199"We Must Have Timber" New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 66, 27 September 1940, Page 5
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