NEW ZEALAND BUSH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 September 1936, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND BUSH.

At a meeting of the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s general committee, a member, Mr W. Kemp, in dealing with the future of New Zealand timber, stated that a fallacy existed among many sections in the Dominion that native bush should not be milled, and lie expressed the opinion that when bush reached maturity it was sheer waste to leave it to rot and fall down or be blown down. There is a good deal in Mr Kemp’s contention. It is certainly an economic waste to allow such to happen, but in cutting down timber a judicious policy should be followed, and at least one tree planted for every one destroyed. The serious danger in regard to the disappearance of our native bush is that large areas of tl-ees are indiscriminately either cut down or destroyed by fire, and no young trees planted in their place. It is necessary for several very patent reasons that we should keep a very large acreage in the Dominion in forest and replace that destroyed, in order to always have a plentiful supply of timber.