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Grey River Argus, 20 June 1933, Page 4

THE INEVITABLE SOFTWOOD FAMINE. “New Zealand,” said Mr R. St Barbe Baker, a forestry expert of in- ’ ternational experience, “should con- * centrate on afforestation with all the resources it can muster, in order to take advantage of the shortage in for- I est products, particularly paper, which J lies ahead.” In view of the inevitable f forthcoming famine in softwoods, and 1 of their shortage in America, U.S.AMM would bo looking to New Zealand as a source of supply in a few years from now. It is anticipated that realisation of the forests established by N.Z. Perpetual Forests, Ltd., will commence in tpproximately six years, and rerv satisfactory profits should be obtained.—4