NATIONAL AFFORESTATION 



which would be an outlay of about 290,000 

 annually a small sum, it will be admitted, 

 when compared with the 45,000,000 yearly 

 expended by this country on supplies brought 

 from abroad. 



My original scheme of afforestation was, 

 however, on much more ambitious lines, the 

 proposal being that 3,000,000 acres should be 

 planted over a period of twenty -five years, at 

 the rate of 120,000 acres annually, this, with 

 the existing 3,000,000 acres, making a grand 

 total of fully 6,000,000 acres of woodlands, the 

 produce of which would leave us to a great 

 extent independent of foreign supplies. 



But supposed difficulties in the matter of 

 procuring suitable land and the necessary 

 money and labour knocked the proposal on 

 the head, and the lesser scheme was substituted 

 as more likely to find favour with those who 

 will have to provide the necessary funds for 

 carrying out this pressing and important work. 



Now, however, that a timely lesson has 

 been learnt as to our timber requirements in 

 time of war and the present sadly depleted 



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