IMPERIAL FORESTRY CONFERENCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12101, 9 July 1920, Page 5

IMPERIAL FORESTRY CONFERENCE.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received July 9, Sam London, Jnly 7

Representatives from all parts of the Empire attended the first meeting of the Imperial Forestry Conference at the Guildhall.

Lord Lovat, in his opening address, pointed out that the timber imports into the United Kingdom in 1919 reached the colossal figure of £73,000,000, and will probably approach 100 millions in 1920. Befqr'e the war ten million tons of timber products were imported into the United Kingdom, reresenting tonnage space equal to that required for the whole of the grain imports and exceeding that required by all other foodstuffs, together with cotton and wool. Of , all the European nations Britain had the Smallest area of State forests.