CHAPTER II 



THE APPROACHING DEARTH OF TIMBER 



THE Controller of Timber Supplies informed 

 the Council of the English Forestry Association 

 that there was a world shortage of timber. 

 In the United Kingdom there were approxi- 

 mately 4,500,000 standards still unfelled, and 

 during the next twelve months it has been 

 estimated that for reconstruction purposes 

 350,000 standards of good timber will be 

 required. These demands are for national 

 requirements such as house and ship building, 

 railway and engineering works of all descrip- 

 tions. Calculating on the rate of output 

 during the war, it has been carefully computed 

 that the timber still left standing in this 

 country would last about eighteen months. 



By those who are best competent to judge, 

 repeated warnings have been given as to an 

 approaching timber famine. The late Presi- 



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