DEMAND FOR FIREWOOD
POSSIBLE SHORTAGE AT END OF WINTER Firewood may be scarce by the eel of the winter if the demand for it grows because of the shortage of cwl The Conservator of the State Foret Service for Canterbury (Mr L I Bailey) said yesterday that normift the service held 600 to 800 cord* a firewood in reserve to allow it to dfl out, but this reserve was now aimed exhausted. Areas of trees damaged in the store) of 1945 had either been cut, or W deteriorated to such an extent tM they were not productive. All IB' sighted firewood merchants now W their winter stocks in hand, said W Bailey, but if because of a shortage* coal, there was an exceptionally heW demand for wood there might be) scarcity by the end of the winter. W Forest Service did not have the labg to expand its production substantiw
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26395, 13 April 1951, Page 8
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