NO END TO NEED FOR TIMBER

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30738, 30 April 1965, Page 14

NO END TO NEED FOR TIMBER

The New Zealand house is still basically a house of timber and timber products, and is comfortable and economical. The volume of forest products used will increase, because modern research is leading to new technological developments and because the country’s growing population will need more of these products.

There are indications of an increase in the use of improved papers, moisture-

proofed or otherwise fortified, for structural purposes

Paper honeycomb sandwich cores for building panels and paper overlays for improved panel materials are typical of the new uses.

To house and service the rapidly increasing population, timber will be needed in quantities that will tax the capacity of existing forests and call for ever more efficient management of forests so that they will yield more logs of high quality.

The 200.000 acres' of forests surrounding Kinieith are farmed for the future under a modern system of forest management, the aim being to perpetuate these pine forests by maintaining a favourable ratio between the number of trees growing, and the trees harvested. Timber is a crop; and these forests will provide a harvest of quality forest products, forever.