SOFT WOODS.
FAMINE IMMINENT. SIR HERBERT MATTHEW'S' WARNING. (Received Dec. 24, I p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 24, Sir Herbert Matthews, secretary of the Central Council of Agriculture, London, arrived on route to New Zealand. He issued a warning that a Yanrno in soft woods was imminent. Sir Herbert. Matthews said that Ausiralian and New Zealand used large quantities of soft woods, pul, iiltle avis being done to replenish, the forest. This, unhappily', was the position throughout the world, but New Zealand fortunately was taking reafforestation seriously. New Zealand methods, however, could not he adopted in England, because early maturing soft woods could r.ot he, grown in Great .Britain.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16918, 24 December 1925, Page 16
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107SOFT WOODS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16918, 24 December 1925, Page 16
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