Petrol from pines
Sir, — I agree with Derrick Rooney’s article on planting pines at Craigieburn (August 21). We should go further and plant the area from Lake Lyndon to Cass, -some of this area being ' also delegated for export logs, which will demand, premium prices on the. world market in 25 years, This area (which has a railway nearby) would in the long term be more profitable producing timber than sheep. Also, if unemployed were used to plant this area, the cost to the Government would be negligible and they could be supervised easily. We could use some idle government or hire buses to take the manpower there each day. This would create work, with little or no foreign exchange being used. This project needs our backing. — Yours, etc., JOHN A. BEATTY. August 31, 1980.
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