SAVE THE KAURI.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13703, 18 September 1908, Page 7

SAVE THE KAURI.

Dli. (/(K KAYNKS AITKAI.. Although Dr. t'ockayix-'o h-jm.m. «n th.* WaijKiu.i kauri !•* maitily «>! Mi«*iitittc v.i!ur,. it < oik:lu<l< - * with m n»« r<tiiiitk*> ol tuuih wider Tlir •/'her Miialhi r''n«i vi"* ale ihr only kauri l<<r-s!> jt"\\ l.rlniifins; !•> th«* Ma---, «n!,> Di t/m-k.iyne.. "Th.- kauri t»r e>t a l * 1 hav»* iillraiiv the ou!\ plant ,irvM). i-il:. ii ..f the kind t<. !»-• foiiiui in tin- world. 1 have ;«!»<> a! '••mj>tc<l t'» j that ii l*> oih* (> 1 lieaut \ am! j iif «-*tt«-tiK m>< li'' tJ>• int<'!'t.t. I h-- f.utht j liKTIV* colltaltv* cxainpho "I sj>e< !C> ( ul rixuiritu; jjluiti. i.:vi letiiti It >* 'li'-u* for** ..t ju.M-u: all nii|.or alii niti ; <fuiii. Hcfoir \t:y loiij;. at di-- i.tl- 1 .it hli m h : ii.- Lull t »>• iiiK t'.|iiri;nl. ; ;ln i» ! 1 he i!<> !oir>.: . «>! iha; kind. ui.i vpiy (•<* • th«- Ur<>. crher ; n tHtniU ytaii' inn-, or •vm 1«'»» , aw..y i.ir ev.-j !r<»m the' !a> s I.! lilO of. i) on-* ul lif jn>hl«'"- , .> "{ jiri 01-.B ho a'.t tai t nm« „i N a Zealand Our locU. C and }jt.{ !| <V- thir I.U «d»e\*Vtr : ..nr kmc S.irt-.-'."* lion ii. re e!v f. !» ~-*n . Wh.l th- <'! th- \Vaj|.oi».i «•!! he I i4iiin)' jTfV-ii'l t<» |-r».jj,- I! i* f. IU-1 ! will give ♦*>»> ; [.liiVllt" Tl! ("I it" y»'.ir». ti. .1 r- r.l li : number cf HJ'Ti. *«!:•», -ii »sl.y i ■ ■h,* .!i I ft '!h' '.ill'- « 1-1 h'VP •" , for ci.ij

•will be much waste land, and a few farms, isolated from other settlement. , t " If it is preserved there will be a magnificent heritage for future -generations, and n attraction. constantly increasing in ; its interosu for 'Ae visitors to our shore*. Now. as to the forest itself. ltcvrtainlv. as has been shown, contacts a great deal of milling timber,, both kauri and ximu, together with some kahikateu. totura, miro, and mat«i. The kauri io found in quantity only to west of the Tornnui Stream, excepting some in the watershed of the Merowharara. Of this kauri belt, which extends from east to west, much of the kauri in the souUtern part' of the forest is scattered, the milling timber par excellence being that on the h : gher land near Kohuroii and the Huaki. But it must be borne in nrind that a large part of the forest contains no milling timber ati all. On the high j tableland and in a few other part* is | much rimu. The land on which th's grows is here of little value for agriculture, and the same remark applies: to the continuation of the forest on the tableland. In other wor(Ls, the present crop is the best the soil will ever yield, and it should surely not be felled liierely for purposes of settlement while so much" better land elsewiiere is at p recent unoccupied. " The slopes of the Waipoua, Fore-t----on :he south to the Waipoua River in many parts contain no millipg lumber a? all beyond some scattered kauris, and yet, though they give not a perfect example by any mams of what a kauri forest is, vheir. covering would - suffice were not- better available, and >vould make a very fair national /kauri park. That such a park should be created seems to me incontrovertible. Tie onlv difference of opin'on that can arise fe'as its size. The Waipoua Forest .sis a. whole would make, of course, the ideal park. It would l>e one pf. the great, sights of tho world, and as the years crept on 'in would be more.. and more prized by our descendants. IV- preserve the forest in its entirety would mean hastening the end of the kauri industry by a vet} few years; to cut it down would «c tend that industry for the same number." " * |