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FIFTY YEARS AGO

DESTRUCTION OF FORESTS As long as 50 years ago warning were sounded against the indiscrimiD" ate destruction of forests in New Zealand. The following is an extract from a leading article which appeared in the New Zealand Herald of February 24, 1888: "The bush fires get worse every year and they will continue to do so, for it is nothing of a crime for us to destroy even a whole forest. The alarm has been sounded often enough, but it goes in at one ear and out of the other. At least the general public appears indifferent and legislation on the subject is, certainly, lukewarm. ' "With the spread of population M the old world, and the rapid colonisation of new countries, the tob-sweepiug removal of the woods, and the alarming consequences to be expected therefrom, have of late years excited much interest and remedial attention in Europe and elsewhere. Few countries on the globe were endowed with such magnificent forests as New Zealand, but we are rapidly parting with them."

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22971, 24 February 1938, Page 10

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FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22971, 24 February 1938, Page 10

FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22971, 24 February 1938, Page 10