OPENING UP VALUABLE CROWN LANDS.
(By Telegraph.) (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, July 19. The lifting, of the reservation on the Waipoua State Kauri forest in ■ the north of Auckland, which is recommended by the Forestry Commission, will, it is stated by Mr. J. G. Coates, M.P. for Kaipara, result when given effect to by the Government in the throwdng-open of some 24,000 aores, and in addition 16,0Q0 to 2,000 acres of adjoining Crown lands. All this land is heavily timbered and it is estimated that there are about 300 million feet of timber in the State forest alone.. The extension of railways which will be necessitated will also give access to a great deal of timber on private lands which is now inaccessible. As already stated, the Commission recommend that 200 acres of the State forest ,be reserved as a park.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12889, 21 July 1913, Page 5
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