WOODPULP WASTAGE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18512, 8 March 1930, Page 7

WOODPULP WASTAGE.

According to Mr Frank Barnjum, an authority on forestry, Canada is already feeling the pinch of a coniferous wood shortage, and will feel it much more severely very soon. “We are cutting immense quantifies of trees so small that they should be left to our grandchildren,” he says, “and if we did not do so the paper industry and others dependent on this class of wood would be hard put to it even to-day to keep in operation. “This is perfectly apparent to anyone who will take the trouble to examine the piles of pulpwood alongside our railways, or in our driving streams. I have examined thousands of sticks of pulpwood that measured only two. three, or at most four inches in diameter. The trees from which they were taken were cut forty years too soon. If this is not robbing our children and grandchildren, I should like to know it is. “One paper company recently made a commendable effort to reduce the drain on our overtaxed wooded areas by importing from Northern Russia a cargo of pulpwood, although it is said to have cost them £5, 10 - a cord. Surely no further evidence should be required to prove that the wood famine is already upon us. “Do we not run the risk of repeating the experience of China, which, with the loss of its forests, is suffering untold miseries to-day?”