STATE FORESTRY ADVISED.

Northern Advocate, 6 December 1916, Page 1

STATE FORESTRY ADVISED.

Mr Hutchins went on to say that up to the present England had relied on free-trade to provide herself with timber. TMrs was practically no State forestry there. Tlia results of that policy had been making themselves strikingly felt in recent years. When the war broke out the United Kingdom was paying for imported timber the enormous sum of £43,000,----000 yearly. It was not only the loss of this money, which was deplorable, but the loss of employment in the country. There were large areas of waste land in England, and a considerable proportion of the £43,000,----000 worth of timber referred to could have been produced there. France and Germany were to-day producing twothirds of all the timber they required. "There is no doubt that it is the example of England which in bygone years has allowed New Zealand to drift into its present position of having no State forestry," continued Hutchins: "At present there is practically no State forestry here, as the term is understood , in other coutitties. However, there is no use crying over spilt milk. Areas which should have been demarcated out as natural forests during the last 50 years have been in great part lost to the Dominion, and all that remains now is to demarcate the rest and save all that is poss ; L>l,> from the wreck. 1 hoiv, therefore tha: the demarcation of the Waipoua kauri forest w.ll -lot only mark the beginning of a new area of forestry for New Zealand., but that it will save for this country, and for the world at large, the besc of th? kauri forests remaining.