TIMBER IMPORTS.
FROM EMPIRE SOURCES. AFFORESTATION IN NEW ZEALAND. (British Official Wireless). London, July 12. The Rt. Hon. Ormsley Gore, Parliamentary Secretary to the Domih. ions, stated in the House of Commons to-day that the percentage of timber imported into Britain from Empire sources was, on a basis of value, 28.6 per cent, in the case of hardwood, and 5.7 per cent, in the case of soft wood. Government afforestation schemes were now in operation providing for the planting of 10,000 acres in New Zealand and South Africa respectively, while considerable areas in those Dominions were being planted by private enterprise, the object being to make those Dominions less dependent on imports.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 179, 14 July 1927, Page 7
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112TIMBER IMPORTS. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 179, 14 July 1927, Page 7
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