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operations, and at the same time to greatly 

 increase the felling of all kinds of timber. 

 The war has certainly brought home to us in 

 a clear and unmistakable manner the danger 

 of relying too much on foreign supplies of 

 timber, and it is to be hoped that after peace 

 we will settle ourselves down to make amends, 

 not only for past neglect in that way, but in 

 order to make up for the lost ground, by re- 

 planting some, at least, of the land from 

 which timber has been felled. But the 

 matter must be viewed in a still more serious 

 light, for unless the Government take steps 

 to stop the present tendency to check planting 

 and hasten felling, another year of war would 

 most certainly have found this country 

 seriously denuded of its best timber. 



We are no pessimists, but unless something 

 is done, such as by Act of Parliament, to 

 either induce planting or stay the axe of the 

 woodman, the woodlands of our country will 

 be sadly depleted in another year or two. 

 Heretofore the State has done extremely 

 little either in extending the area of our 



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