TIMBER FAMINE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21580, 6 December 1944, Page 4

TIMBER FAMINE

o AUSTRALIAN FEARS HUGE HOUSING DEFICIT (10 a.m.) ■ Dec. e To overcome housm: shortage will rey -c : least 1C years after the vrr a Tins slr.lemeir was made yeslerd.v.- >»/ Mr. Waiter Bunning. senior on i cur o the PostWar Reconstructs Department addressing the Ail-Auslrnlia Timber Congress. Australia is airead i’.'v.C'JO dwellings short of requir while a further 82.000 are ueffi for habitation. The Common v, • ” Controller, Mr. S. L. ... !- said that Australia bad not .timber resources to meet her own timber requirements over tim 59 years The Commonweal-,!; ; .--d lire Slater would need to spend ' t— large sums of money in ro-a v " ion, to protect the future of Australia as a nation. IMPORTATION URGED SYDNEY, Dec. 5. Australia will be faced with a timber shortage in the post-war years and it may be necessarj to license the timber mills to control the output and ■prevent the destruction ->f immature trees. The New Soutu Y/ales Minister for Conservation. Mr. W. P. Dunn, said this when the opene-fl the third All-Australia timber . congress, which is being attended by delegates from New Zealand as well as from all the States. The disappearance of the forests was a national calamity and there should be a gene s ! policy of reafforestation. said t! i< istcr. Everything must bo done h> prevent the further destruction of forest lands by fire. Mr. D. A. Oberg, president of the congress, said the moot important question related to the post-war position of the timber available. Permission must be sought to import large quantities of building timber from New Zealand and over ev.