TIMBER SUPPLIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 8 October 1926, Page 9

TIMBER SUPPLIES.

NEW ZEALANDER’S VIEWB. Ey C»bl»—Pres* AssociatlMi—ConyrlfbV Australian an i N.Z C»bl. Association. FREMANTLE, October 7.. Mr R. J. Jackson, manager of » large timber business in New Zealand, who is a passenger from London by the Orvielo, snid that notwithstanding the use of iron and concrete in tho construction of buildings, the consump- „ tion of timber continues to rise. While in Canada Mr Jackson devoted practically the whole of his time to study of the timber industry. The forests, fie 6aid were being cut out, and owing to the prolific natural growth scientific afforestation had not been undertaken on a large scale. It was a remarkable fact that the Atlantic coastal citios In the United States were the world’s largest importers of timber, though there were practically inexhaustible forests on the Pacific Coast. The freight from the Pacific coast, through Panama Canal, loaded the cost <if timber to the purchaser to such «ii extent that it was cheaper to import timber from the Continent. Longer lengths, not procurable in Europe— • constructional timber—must rise In commercial value, because it was « product that could not be manufactured.