BRITAIN OVERSEAS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 276, 19 November 1913, Page 5

BRITAIN OVERSEAS.

THE COMMISSION'S VIEWS. THE DOMINIONS' PROGRESS. CAST GITTE BRITAIN A START. DEFORESTATION PERILS. ,-*HS[j£c:oj— -uoitßposey ssaj j—-anno £%) (Received 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, November 18. The Empire Parliamentary party arrived at Waterloo station to-day, and was welcomed by representatives of the Colonial Office, Captain R. Muirhead Coilins (Federal representative), and others. Lord Emmott (Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies), who acted as chairman of the party, in the course of an interview, stated that the evinced intense, pleasure at the visit. Prosperity in all Dominions is manifest, and conditions in Australasia were very favourable. He was greatly impressed with Australia's climate and scenery. Lord Lough said he was struck by the Dominions' extra-ordinary prosperity and high state of development. They 'could in many things give the Motherland a Ion" start, particularly in agriculture, which was conducted on a much more scientific basis.

Sir Rider Haggard, c member of the Knipire Trade Commission, in discussing forestry at the Authors' Club yesterday! said one could ?.ec things in Australia and New Zealand calculated to make the heart of ?. forester bleed. He instanced the destruction of the kauri trees in New Zealand.

Everywhere timber was beinsr burned, destroyed, and wasted. Unless the world chocked the waste of timber, in the next hnlf of the century there would be a timber famine.