DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16813, 3 June 1926, Page 4

DAY BY DAY.

In elaboration of his proposal for the establishment of a

Empire's Problem of First Importance.

special institute in close relation to the Agricultural College, and on

the same site, to deal with the problems of forestry and forest products, Sir Frank Heath, in his report to the New Zealand Government, states that the question of forestry is pressing and important for the Empire as a whole. The best authorities anticipate a serious world shortage of soft woods within the next twenty years, and Great Britain, which to-day is spending at least £10,000,000 a year on imported limbers, needs the help of the Dominions and her colonics in substituting an imperial for a foreign trade in this vital necessity of man. "Substitutes for the present soft woods will have to be found and the present supplies greatly increased," he slab's. "Unless it can become entirely self-sufficing, rising prices will affect (lie Dominion equally with the Mother Country, -'"id if prices are high, why should New Zealand neglect the development of a new and profitable market overseas? Moreover, effective forestry, if il can be pursued as it is now pursued in France, Germany, Norway and Sweden, means in the, opinion of competent judges a new and large population on the" land, much greater in numbers lo a given area than can be the case with the pastoral industry or farming on a largo scale." Sir Frank Heath points out that (he Professor of Forestry at Auckland would naturally be connected with (he proposed institute, while the work being done at Ghrisl church would be brought into the scheme from the beginning. "To this end," adds Sir Frank Heath, "I recommend that the central organisation for research should establish a Committee of University representatives, the State's Forest Service and timber-millers to work out a programme of work and estimates of cost.

The Director of Forest Service would naturally be the chairman of the committee, and it would be possible, I think, from conversations I have had with limber-millers, to secure their support for a levy on the amount of timber felled or produced."