DEFORESTING AUSTRALIA.
THE PERIODICAL WARNING. TIMBER AND WAR. (Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The Minister of Defence (General Sir Neville Howse, V.C.), uttering a warning regarding the rapid depletion of Australian forests, said he viewed with great alarm the condition of forestry in j Australia. j He regarded the situation as a grave one. Few people realise the enor.nous demand which modern warfare made upon the timber supply. Quite apart from the use for ordinary military sup-1 plies, it was used during" the recent war; for a wide variety of purposes, ranging' from road and bridge making to struc- j tural timber for dugouts, trench systcji, I and huts. At present Australia imported 42 ncr cent of her timber requirements, mostly from Canada and the United States, but the supply there was rapidly failing.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 218, 15 September 1925, Page 7
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