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the Native Land Court to be considered. The Service then measures the region and fixes the stumpage_ rates (sale price). Once the measurer has finished his job, then the bushmen can move in, Access roads and tramways are sited and laid down and the best routes by which timber can be removed without disturbing immature trees are determined. Of course, the bush to-day supplies more than houses to live in. The pipe you smoke, the clothes-pegs your wife uses, even the buttons on your clothes, may have been grown in New Zealand. The pipes come from rata, totara knot, and mahoe; and the clothes-pegs from tawa and silver beech. Large quantities of buttons are now made from maire. Shovel and pick handles come from tawa and, provided the wood is properly seasoned, they are said to be as good a anything imported. But the forester, who first saw the wood through the trees, looks beyond present needs. He has produced the tim ber for one generation, but while he i . doing this he has to think of succeed ing generations, and start planting against the demands of the next hun dred years.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 376, 6 September 1946, Page 22
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