Values policy would stop native logging

Press, 29 July 1978, Page 22

Values policy would stop native logging

Parliamentary reporter A Values Government would immediately stop all logging in State native forests, with the exception of some logging in westland while diversification is developed, says the party’s leader, Mr A. H. Kunowski.

Announcing his party’s forestry policy, Mr Kunowski said Values would also convert all mills in the central North Island to exotic timber and introduce transport subsidies to being Kaingaroa logs to these mills. The price of native timbers would be increased substantially to prevent waste and to restrict the

use of native timbers to decorative and special uses, such as furnituremaking. The party’s forestry policy also includes — the application of the Government’s indigenous forest policy to privately-owned forests, and proposals for central and regional government to buy privatelyowned native forests; the inclusion af the Whirinaki, Okarito and Waikukapa State forests, and the Coromandel, Kaimai and Paparoa ranges in National Parks; a reduction in the scale of the beech logging scheme in Westland; and public participation in forestry policy.