OUR VANISHING BUSH.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5499, 22 April 1910, Page 2

OUR VANISHING BUSH.

" What struck me most in Jti avelling through your country," said Colonel John Pollen to a Dominion representative just before his deqarture last Fri day, " was the terrible destruction of your forests that has taken place. In India the' old Moguls had wise forest laws, and thoroughly realised the nee essity for conserving the timber. No man was allowed to cut down a tree unless be planted ten in its place, and no tree of more than a certain girth could be cut down without the permission of the Moguls. For many years after we Britishers came into India all was chaos so far as the forests were cc ncerned, bat latterly we have learned wisdom, and the Indian Government has now a fine fore6t service. " Colonel Pollen said it 6eemed to him rather a pity that New Zealand had not some thiog like the grand Moguls' forest laws. Conditions are, of course, different here, and to leave the big trees standing when firing a piece of bush in New Zealand has never proved particularly successful from the timber conserving point ol view. If the forest giants survive the heat of the fire, they almost invariably perish after a few years out in the open. Forest conservation h,as latterly been receiving some attention, and it is in teresting to note from Australian papers to hand this week that the Victoria!. Minister for Lands (Mr M'Kenzie) ha* become impressed with the serious con sequences which must follow the con tinuous destruction of timber through out that State, and he has under consideration a scheme for encouraging the planting of trees upon private land. He thinks that the State might be devided into four districts, and that pri zes might be offered in each to the land holders who in three years improved their properties most by plantiug suit able irees. It might be wise, the Minister suggests, for a committee to be appointed to deal with proposals such as tbig for the encouragement of tree planting on private land Mr M"Ken zie agrees with the recent congress oi Victorian progress associations that it would be desirable for suitable trees t ■be planted systematically along bankof streams throughout Victoria.

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