SOFTWOOD FAMINE
LONDON, Sept. 28. Professor T. CL Hill, in the botany section of the Royal Association, declared that among the lessons forced home by the war was the dependence of man on the plant. He said lu» had been told by an expert, that a world famine of soft limber might lie expected in about 40 years unless afforestation was established on a largo scale.
Some afforestation was being (tone in (his country, “but the present rate of consumption indicates we can never supply our own needs,” Professor Hill said. “Search, therefore, must be made for quick-growing exotic trees. Substitutes for timber also must be sought. Wheat straw, of which many thousand tons are wasted annually in the great wheat-producing countries, appears to be a. source worthy of investigation for the manufacture iff paper,” he also said.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17640, 2 December 1931, Page 10
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138SOFTWOOD FAMINE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17640, 2 December 1931, Page 10
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