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APPENDIX V Export of Sawn Timbers and other Forest Produce

APPENDIX VI Payments and Receipts for the Year ended 31st March, 1946

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(From information supplied by the Comptroller of Customs. All figures refer to the years ended 31st December, 1943-45.) 1943. 1944. 1945. Item. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. " Quantity. 1 Value. 1 White pine Rimu Beech Matai Kauri Bd. ft. 137,000 2,261,000 719,000 78,000 18,000 £ 1,670 25,500 11,650 940 820 Bd. ft. 206,000 2,416,000 988,000 28,000 9,000 £ 2,420 28,290 15,340 570 420 Bd. ft. 38,000 690,000 927,000 75,000 19,000 £ 530 10,220 16,230 1,070 870 Insignis pine— . Sawn Case timber Other New Zealand Foreign 428,000 731,000 20,000 148,000 4,940 14,740 680 11,670 39,000 505,000 j. 52,000 570 10,840 1,070 575,000 1,249,000* 560,000 8,920 32,990 14,900 Total 4,540,000 72,610 4,243,000 59,520 4,133,000 85,730 Kauri-gum Tons. 590 44,528 Tons. 1,132 74,426 Tons. 1,195 94,287 ■ * Includes a small percentage of beech.

Item. 1942-43. 1943-44. 1944-45. 1945-46. Payments Allocation of revenue— £ £ £ v £ Consolidated Fund (portion of revenue from national16,721 17,455 16,196 14,235 endowment forests) Working Railways Account (section 24 (1), Finance Act, 898 549 1936) Local bodies 14,767 12,928 12,799 17,114 General management charges— Salaries 79,793 89,332 110,317 137,984 General expenses 34,370 41,254 56,019 102,275 Land purchase 25,307 11,687 38,957 30,098 Forestry projects under direct managementExotic 220,598 248,705 346,7.43 377,910 Indigenous 22,945 30,521 41,912 58,808 Utilization : Sawmill, creosote, plant, &c. 100,720 104,826 125,931 133,677 Totals 516,119 557,257 748,874 872,101 Receipts Indigenous forest receipts— Timber sales 134,396 114,533 121,603 135,913 Timber royalties and trespass 9,467 8,588 9,250 13,451 Leases, grazing 1,492 1,402 1,611 2,865 Sawmill sites, industrial, &c. 239 247 308 672 Miscellaneous 8,017 6,895 9,124 8,960 Log sales from managed forests 30,596 73,317 54,716 67,053 Exotic forests : Poles, posts, firewood, &c. 54,234 51,952 45,938 38,643 Utilization projects— Sawn timber 40,607 16,180 22,529 63,451 Creosoted products 23,637 15,964 45,918 17,305 Box shooks 79,109 136,600 129,126 182,187 Miscellaneous 4,767 2,663 9,875 9,532 Miscellaneous credits 13,371 16,942 10,802 , 48,292 Totals .. .. .. .. 399,932 445,303 460,800 588,324 Receipts from national-endowment indigenous forests 48,289 46,654 47,426 47,157 (included in above)