DWINDLING FORESTS.
AUSTRALIA'S TIMBER SUPPLY. DEFENCE MINISTER'S WARNING. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. Sept. 15. Tho Minister for Defence, MajorGeneral Sir Neville Howse, V.C., uttering a warning regarding the rapid depletion of Australian forests, said he viewed with great alarm the condition of forestry in Australia. The Minister said that he regarded the situation as a grave one. Few people realised tho enormous demand which modern warfare made upon the timber supply. Quite apart from the use for ordinary military supplies, it was used during the recent war for a wide variety of purposes, ranging from road and bridge making to structural timber for dug-outs, trench systems and huts. At present Australia imported, said the speaker, 42 per cent, of her timber requirements, mostly from Canada and the United States, but the supply there was rapidly failing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19124, 16 September 1925, Page 11
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