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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12464, 25 May 1911, Page 5

The export of bacon and pork to the Old Country has not been a success -daring the past season. A Wairarapa firm, which had forwarded a consignment of aix cases of bacon Jo England, Mates that it resulted, m a loss of nearly Id per lb compared with New Zealand prices. It is estimated by the Director^ of Forests, on data supplied m New Zealand (saya the Sydney Daily Telegraph), that tree-planting by prison labor m that couStttryfchas cost an average Of £3 18» SkL per acre, or 1.57 farthing per estate lfen'ed^ tree — an "exceptionally economical" . initial cost for afforestation . work. The. director estimates that the crops, covering. 9835 acres, will, mature m from 3& to 50 y.ears, "and m. the interim will be thinned down to about 150 trees to the acre. The sale of thinnings should more than pay for cost of all future treatment, so that, by taking even as low a. vahie a« 5s per' matured tree, the groB« return from sales of timber would represent a sum of about £339,000 during the next 50 years;" j