FORESTRY.
AN IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
(By Cable—Press Association—Lopyrigfct.) (Reuter's Telegram*.) LONDON, July 7. Representatives from all parts of the Empire attended the first meeting of the Imperial Forestry Conference at the Guildhall. Lord Lovat, in his opening address, pointed out that the timber imports into the United Kingdom in 1919 reached the colossal figure of £72,000,000, and would probabiv approach £90,000,000, or £100,000.000 m 1920 Before the war 10,000,000 tons of timber products were imported into the United Kingdom, representing a tonnage space equal to that required for tho wholo of the grain imports, and exceeding that required by all the other foodstuffs, together with cotton and wool. Of all the European nations, Great Britain had the smallest area of State forests.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16883, 10 July 1920, Page 9
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