OUR FORESTS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18526, 30 October 1925, Page 12

OUR FORESTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF "THB PBESfS." Bir, —I -was interested to read in your issue of Tuesday, - 20th inst., an account ,of a lecture on forestry, in. which it was stilted the native timbers of New Zealand would last us only another fifty years (I presume at the present rate of cutting), and on another page in. the same issue a statement, made "by Sir Joseph Ward in an eliactioneering speech, saying timber was. being dumped into New Zealand while there are thousands of: acres of bush wasting in the south. .- If Sir Joseph's policy is to chop off our last poor forestry hen's head just when her chicks are beginning to hatch and results, he is better where he is. We want our forests as we've a right to expect to have them, as nearly as possible as our fathers found them before they' ruined and wasted and burned them off both bad lands and good, in their mad thirst for the ali-important bird in the hand." We know how the two birds in the bush are as valuable as the one in the hand, after all->-and 1 we want them left there! —Yours, etc., VIOLET G<