110 ON THE TIMBER SUPPLY OF AUSTRALIA. 



XI. On the Timber Supply of. Australia. By the Hon. Mr 

 Krichauff, Member of Legislative Assembly of South 

 Australia. With Note, by R. Hutchison of Carlowrie, 



V.-P.S.ASoc. 



The following deeply interesting and instructive paper was 

 recently read before a Meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures, 

 in the South Australian Institute, Adelaide, under the Presidency 

 of His Excellency the Governor of South Australia. As much of 

 the ground so ably traversed in his address is very suggestive, and 

 at the same time instructive to the practical forester of our own 

 country, and to the younger Members of the Scottish Arboricul- 

 tural Society, Mr Krichauff's paper is here reproduced, in the 

 hope of showing the strenuous calls for forest conservancy 

 and extension of plantation works which exist, and are being 

 grappled with in some of the most important colonies of the 

 British Crown. A perusal of so able an advocate as Mr Krichauff's 

 views may suggest reflections applicable to our own native land, 

 and arouse the attention of Arboriculturists to the fact that, if such 

 conditions of necessity for forest conservancy exist in comparatively 

 sparsely-peopled and new countries, it is surely the more incumbent 

 upon the practical labourer in the cause of Arboriculture in the 

 mother country, to endeavour, by all the means in his power, to 

 further the art of his profession, and to promote the home growth 

 of valuable timber, seeing so many of the old timber supplies in 

 countries whence we have been accustomed to draw largely for 

 our constructive wants at home, must now have yearly increasing 

 demands upon their resources, in competition with our own, from 

 those rapidly progressing colonies which Great Britain has estab- 

 lished for her surplus population in all quarters of the world, even 

 in climates where timber for constructive purposes is by no means 

 over abundant. 



Mr Krichauff said : No raw material, I venture to say, is of 

 greater importance to a larger number of tradesmen and manufac- 

 turers than timber, and, even by the simple appellation of fuel, 

 wood takes with manufacturers a place at least next to coal. If, 

 therefore, the Chamber of Manufactures takes an interest in the 

 supply of timber and fuel, it is a duty which the Chamber owes to 

 its members ; and I feel proud of being requested to call this day 



