THE TIMBER FAMINE.
, We may take it for granted that Mr il f Gifford Pinchot, the* head of the Ay*-.*- ‘ rican Forestry Department, is not exaggerating when he tel Ip (is that "the United States have already crossed the verge of a timber famine so severe that its blighting effects will be felt in every household in the land,” and if this is true of a country which-has so’ long boasted of its “inexhaustible” supplies of timber, we may "well ask what is to happen to New Zealand when, within twenty or thirty years, our own forests have been cleared away, if we have done nothing, by means of reforestation and afforestation, to supply their place. —Auckland “Star.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2560, 22 July 1909, Page 7
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118THE TIMBER FAMINE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2560, 22 July 1909, Page 7
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