OUT OF HIS OWN REPORT

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1203, 13 September 1927, Page 5

OUT OF HIS OWN REPORT

A CRITIC CONFOUNDED NEW ZEALAND’S CLEVER REPLY (Per Press Association), Wellington, Sept. 13. With regard to the attack by \ ictoria’sf Minister of Forests in Now Zealand’s forestry companies and his assertion- that, nowhere was softwood being used for pulping, the Press Association has been requested to publish an extract from the report ol tile Victorian A 1 blister's own do pariniont coin plot cly controverting i'he Victorian s statement.

Tiie report says: “ A timber which is being successfully used for building furniture fur railway purposes and boxinakiiig and has been proved suitable for pulping for making both paper arid artificial .silk can hardly he described as useless, and the evidence here set; out justifies the conclusion that pin us insignis grown in Australia and New Zealand compares favourably in usefulness with other softwood timbers well known on the. markets of the world.”