OUR FORESTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 19, 22 July 1907, Page 4

OUR FORESTS.

; » TO THE EDITOfc. Sir,— As tho columns of the Post are i °P«» »<> r tho discussion of questions of public interest, I ask for your support in my advocacy of tho reservation of the present forests and tho renewal of forests by planting. The Government should roscrve from sale forests that aro calculated to supply useful and valuable timber in the future, or if they ate add, lot there be a. condition that tho timber must do worked up to supply tho market, and not destroyed. If there i> not a Convenient market for timbof, then let tho Government keep it till there i», because it has been proved by observation that forests have a beneficial influsneo on rainfall and climate. | If people would only think seriously of ' tho great importance of trees, to a nation's prosperity and 'well-being, there would be a universal cry for tho preservation of forestry. New Zealand is supposed to be up to date in most things; let us see to it that Wo d 6 not kill the goose that lays the golden ogg by allowing- to bo dpetroyed, in a few daya, trees which require from fifty to a hundred years to mature. So Convinced afa some countries of the benefit 6t forests that it is enacted that for each tree cut down two mv.it be planted. About twenty years ago I was moved to draw public attention to this subject) with a certain amount of success ; but movo attention should bo drawn to tfee planting. Precautions should be taken against fire.— l am, etc., COLONIST. Aubburton, 19th July.

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