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number of soldiers and sailors will not be able 

 to resume their former occupations, and will, 

 so to speak, be thrown on the hands of the 

 Government, who will be expected, as far as 

 possible, to assist in providing them with 

 suitable employment. Various schemes will 

 no doubt be formulated for so doing, but in 

 the opinion of many one of the most pressing 

 and important is the planting up of some of 

 the waste lands of our country in order to 

 provide timber for the future. 



For many years there is bound to be a 

 dearth of timber, and the all-round shortage 

 of foreign supplies will cause a constant drain 

 on our now very limited home productions. 

 There are other reasons as well as those men- 

 tioned why tree-planting on an extensive scale 

 should be put in hand at once, some of which 

 are that, owing to the interruption of supplies 

 from abroad and the heavy inroads that have 

 been made on our home supplies during the 

 past four years, a shortage of the necessary 

 requirements will quickly come about. In 

 addition, Eussia will not be in a position for a 

 long period to organise labour so that the 



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