NATIVE TIMBERS
AVASEFUL POLICY PURSUED. “In 40 years there will lie no nativ timber worth having left to mill, an*i tliis it is very necessary to go ahead with tlie big planting programme” said tiie Commissioner of State Forests (M,i* W. B. Taverner), in speaking at a United Party function in Auckland. A certain change of attitude was re quired towards tiio use of timber i New Zealand, continued tlie Aljniste* The people had been more or less waste ful in tlie utilisation of native timber and that waste should he stopped. In the most favourable areas, where there were the most milling trees, his exper advisers had told him that not moie than 10 per cent, df the standing hush became sawn board's. Having been wasteful in their use of native tree the people were inclined to look with disfavour on tlie new pine trees that would be available in ever-increasing quantity. A programme was being completed this year which would provide 300,000 acres of State forests planted in pine trees. He believed ho had a difficult task in regenerating tiio native forests, spreading the use of native timbers over a longer period an 1 stopping by every means in his power tiie waste that had gone on in tlie past.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1929, Page 7
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