FORESTRY CONFERENCE.
GREAT BRITAIN’S IMPORTS,
Received July 9, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, July 7. Representatives from all parts of the Empire attended the first meeting of the Imporial Forestry Conference at the Guildhall. Loid Lovat, in his opening address, pointed out that timber imports into the United Kingdom in 1919 reached the colossal figure of £72,000,000, and would probably approach £90,000,000 or £IOO MO,OOO m 1920. Before the war 10.0f10.000_ tons of timber products were imported into the United Kingdom, representing a tonnage space equal to that required for the whole grain imports, and exceeding that required by all the other foodstuffs together with cotton and wool. Of all the European nations Great Britain had the smallest area of State forests.—(Reuter).
CONSERVATION OF KAURI.
LONDON.. July 8. At the Forestrv Conference Sir Thomas Mackenzie said that but for conservation kauri in New Zealand would have been exhausted within seven years, but it was now expected to last 25 years. Mr Maekav said that Australia was backward in afforestation. Liberal Federal and State anpropriations wore required to safeguard the forests, but they were unobtainable owing to the war indebtedness. (A. and N.Z. cable).
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1860, 9 July 1920, Page 5
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