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short time a very considerable addition in the way of home-grown 
timber and forest products could be made to the general supply on 
which the country is dependent at present?” ‘‘ Yes; forest pro- 
duce might be utilised, and a better scantling of timber might be 
grown by careful management, and many things turned to account 
which are already so much used in Germany.” 
“Do you think that this country, by which I mean the three 
kingdoms, England, Ireland, and Scotland, can hope to depend 
much or at all in the future commercially upon the Indian supply, 
having regard to the great distances, the cost of carriage, and so 
forth ; would you suppose that, from the vast areas of forests in 
India, any practical commercial supply could be obtained for this 
country?” ‘No, I think not ; there are very few woods now ex- 
ported ; teak wood is the great commercial wood of India, and 
those which are sold by weight, such as sandal-wood, box-wood, 
&c.” —“ Teak-wood is of exceptional value in the timber trade, is 
it not.” ‘It stands quite alone for shipbuilding.” —‘‘ But the pur- 
poses for which it is used are comparatively limited!” ‘They 
are comparatively limited at present.”—‘‘ And you do not think 
any considerable commercial supply could ever be hoped for from 
any such distance as India?” ‘‘ Only teak-wood, box, and fancy 
woods,” —‘‘ Those which are used for a sia Limited oe e 
“Which are of great value for a special purpose.” 
“With regard to Canada, are you aware that the great supplies 
that we draw from in Canada are being very seriously diminished ?” 
“T have not myself seen it, but there can be no doubt of the fact 
from what we read.”—“ Perhaps you saw the report recently pro- 
cured through the kindness of the Marquis of Lansdowne, wherein 
it is shown that the province of Prince Edward’s Island, which was 
once very richly wooded, is now totally denuded of timber ; the 
Lieutenant-Governor reports that there is no longer any timber to 
export there, that it has all gone down under the clearances by 
lumbermen, and the general traffic in timber?” ‘TI believe that is 
so.” —“ Do you think this country can depend in the future, as 
she has done in the past, upon her supplies from abroad with the 
same certainty as was formerly the case?” ‘There is no doubt 
that the supplies are rapidly diminishing in many countries; there 
can be no doubt whatever of that.”—“‘ Does not it then become a 
very serious question for this country, that we should take thought 
to supply by some production, as far as we can, timber to supple- 
ment the shortcomings of those countries upon which we have been 
