WEALTH IN WOOD
New Zealand, which has very favourable conditions lor the growing of useful timber, will have sources of great wealth in forests, if the management of them follows the far-sighted intelligent policy 0 f several European countries.
The importance of wood in the mod- ' ern human scheme of things is emphasised by Richard St. Barbe Baker, founder of the society known as the Men of the Trees. "Before the war there were about four hundred uses for wood, but today there are over four thousand uses for forest products in one form or another. For each single substitute for wood in the world to-day, such as steel- doors for offices or cement in buildings, about ten new uses are) found lor forest products. The maim-, facturing industries, whether or not wood enters directly into their finished products, are scarcely, if at all, less dependent upon the forest than those whose connection with it is obvious and direct. Wood is an indispensable part of the material structure upon which civilisation rests."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 16 July 1941, Page 7
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172WEALTH IN WOOD Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 16 July 1941, Page 7
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