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being closed against her by duties, which 

 practically shut her out; but that ob- 

 stacle would be removed. It was, no 

 doubt, a sin the way timber was de- 

 sferoyed, but to avoid it there was no 

 choice unless the farmers had 

 not only a market open, but 

 means of transit to get the 

 timber to it. Tlie Government had 

 not lost sight of the necessity of plant- 

 ing trees, and already ha-d an order given 

 for samples of seeds of certain trees. 

 He moved a vote of thanks to the lej- 

 turer. 



Mr. Heyn, in reply to Mr. Target, 

 promised to send particulars of what 

 some Governments made out of forestry. 



Mr. Thomas Stephens, M.A., said that 

 some two years ago, when in 

 England, he inquired as to the 

 chances of an export trade from 

 the colony, and was told that some 

 shipments previously had arrived so 

 twisted and warped that no one would 

 look at them. The West Australian 

 woods were then coming into repute 

 there. All competent judges said there 

 was an opening for our timber in Eng- 

 land, but it must be taken up by people 

 with a proper knowledge and sufficient 

 capital. He hoped that what Mr. Heyn 

 had said would, stimulate people to get 

 the knowledge that would develop the 

 trade. 



Mr. Bernard c>haw differed from the 

 lecturer in regard to what the pionee'-s 

 had had to do to clear land for home- 

 steads. 



Mr. E. A. Counsel (Surveyor-General) 

 agreed that timber destruction was un- 

 avoidable in the pa^t, but now was the 

 time to take steps against it. 



Mr. Heyn replied that he had seen 

 large quantities of land where, for want 

 of knowledge 'of forestry, the only thin.^ 

 it could produce had been destroyed. 

 He had not alluded to where homesteads 

 with cereals had replaced the trees. He 

 had seen blue gum trees destroyed where 

 the soil would produce nothing else., 

 and that it could not do so should have 

 been ascertained before destroying. It 

 had been done in tiie last few years. 



Sir John Dodds could not help agree- 

 ing with a good deal that Mr. Heyn hxd 

 said regarding clearing; but it must be 

 remembered that if settlements we:e to 

 be made, and population spread over the 

 country, there must be a destruct'on of 

 timber. It would be a good thing if thf 

 attention of Ministers were given tc 

 the matter of bush fires, with a view to 

 the conservation of what, in the future, 

 might prove a very large asset. 



Votes of thanks to the authors of the 

 papers were carried. 



