AFFORESTATION
DOMINION EXPERT’S VIEW. NOT ENOUGH BEING DONE. (Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) PERTH, July 7 Mr W. Fraser, afforestation expert, who is returning to New Zealand as a passenger by the Narkunda, says that the annual consumption per head of timber and its products is Heaviest in America and that Australia takes second place. Mr Fraser said that there was no possibility of the world’s shortage of timber being overtaken unless the timber-grow-ing areas in the various countries were systematically replanted. He contended that neither the Australian Government nor the New Zealand Government was doing sufficient in regard to afforestation. Norway and Sweden were the only countries where the production was slightly ahead of the consumption, but the new growth of American forests was only about 24 per cent, of the consumption.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19836, 8 July 1926, Page 9
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131AFFORESTATION Otago Daily Times, Issue 19836, 8 July 1926, Page 9
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