Timber Milling At Waipoua Forest
(Special) AUCKLAND, This Day. Although the State Forestry Service had admitted * taking only 1,500,000 board feet of kauri from the Waipoua forest, it was estimated that at least 5,000,000 ft had been taken. Mr W. R. McGregor, of Auckland University College, said, this at a luncheon meeting of the Optimists’ Club yesterday. Indications that the Government was determined to conduct large-scale milling at the forest were shown by the number of roads that had been built and the construction of a village near it. The present timber shortage was the result of the criminal recklessness of the bushmen of New Zealand in the past century, said the speaker. More damage had been done to forests in New Zealand in that period than in any other part of the world. The Waipoua forest was a scientific museum, and its destruction would result in overseas naturalists forming the opinion that New Zealand * was without culture.
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Northern Advocate, 8 November 1946, Page 4
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