GENERAL CONCLUSIONS 



The planning and controlling of any forest 

 scheme should be under the best expert 

 authority. Voluntary replanting of denuded 

 areas will never make up for the wholesale 

 destruction of our woodlands during the past 

 four years, which makes it imperative that 

 compulsory powers be enforced and State aid 

 invoked before tree-planting on an extensive 

 scale to meet our wants is brought about. 



The utilisation of canals and other waterways 

 in the transport of timber is strongly recom- 

 mended, one of the most serious drawbacks to 

 the successful exploitation of home-groxvn 

 timber being the excessive cost of carriage. 



Railway rates are ruinously high even for 

 short distances, and when to this is added the 

 cost of haulage to the railway-station, little 

 is left for the grower of the timber. 



Converting the timber by sawing in the 

 woodlands in order to reduce cost of carriage 

 is also recommended. The travelling sawmill 

 has done good work of late years. 



Unskilled labour, such as clearing the 

 ground, drainage, soil work, and pitting, may 



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