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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14837, 14 February 1919, Page 6

The Chinese Canton Times reports that the Government has received advices from the Chinese Minister in Paris, stating that owing to the extensive areas of the regions in Europe which have been 1 devastated by the war, the Allied Powers have expressed the wish fchat Chinese laborers should be recruited to take part in the work of reconstruction. Oft receipt of the information, the authorities in China brought up the question 1 for •discussion at a Cabinet meeting. A resolution was passed regarding the arrangements to be made in order to meet the demand of labor by various countries in Europe. Instructions to this effect were also issued to the bureau in charge of the labor recruiting affairs. It is a strange fact that there has been no thorough investigation into the growth of New; Zealand native trees. An expert witness before the Parliamentary Industries Committee stated such, an inl vestigation was very desirable. For instance, it was not definitely known how long the famous kaurj took to reach the milling stage. The rate of growth of several other trees had never been established, and the lack of this data was a serious disadvantage. Kauri, jt had been shown, wag nearly twice as fast as the European spruce, and it would pay handsomely to regenerate the kauri. The rate of growth of all the New Zealand trees was much quicker than was generally supposed.