VI.—SrarEMENT SHOWING THE APPROXIMATE REVENUE AVAILABLE Two YEARS AFTER Formation or THE FOREST DEPARTMENT. 
1 9 8 4 ! 5 6 7 8 9 
(IN 1881.) (IN 1881.) 881.) IN 1881.) IN 1881. IN 1881 
Area | Average Market yang of the i i ; ; ; 
A t Ave Total a 9, 9,000 & ie icis rf i f ^ R ts b 
moun rage o cally By mer cial feet o eceipts STATE INCOME, Bp unt 
Total Area of Wxhaustive Annual | required to -class timber, annual ie ae f the 
the e demand, rash, allow the aN eiim £1 per100 £90} the standing £ Tepartmantal 
valuable including e required to| Annual » 12,000 feet of second- timber and wood, BY. Annual sales 1,190,500 | Expenditure, 
Forests in the Home Forests, supply Acreage, ce nag oe eo for a quantity Export duty, 
Consumption | per 1 acre, the the period ge ing, equal to as Seana permanent 
e and demand, 0: e ud to 21. 000 TUUM for a perio percentage 
Government. Dispone as per revolution superficial Big fee of 3 years on the 
Annum, column 2, |taken on an raging 10s, per or per 2v acre (up at end of Income 
average of per 100 Ps .. £60 yu a nn a 1884), per an- to be 
100 years. |——— : quantity. num, say ..  900,500| 3 per cent. 
Taken as Taken as Taken as 21,000 Superficial feet. 
Acres. Gs PPM Acres, Acres. 
5,000,000 | 500,000,000 21,000 23,810 | 2,881,000 £150 £50 £1,500,000 £45,000 
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superficial feet per annum, from 1881 to ps end of 1884, Altogether, the hited papie nt of the demand may be mu 
Column 3: No accurate information o the subject can be had before the Forest service n organized. How na the him sa is not, at present, 
d minerii] Pane for sut the Kies stated yield per acre be above the mark, it will b o possible to go afield on marking operations for the 
urpose of meeting the amou d the demand, and should the stated average ie prove to be under the bal 4 so much the better will it en ia the 
nterest ha re State. Saporitésiia for the purpose of ascertaining the average yield of our indigenous forests will have to be made in eac 
C is the basis on which must rest the whole system. The 2D n yield per acre being divided by A (anome: of the CASH ` tho 
quotient « will site the bes of acres required to supply the demand ; then by multiplying ‘the annual acreage 0, as the pita sie admitted 
age above which, trees will be felled, the area per column 5 is obtained. The s surplus quantity ni the area per colum 
end ys jov] requirements 
Columns 6 and 7: The quotations apply to the year 1881. No,exaggeration has been found in them by competent persons, to the consideration 
of whom they have been su 
Columns 8 and 9: The wane of the departmental expenditure and that of the exports is further considered, 
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*$.092]]2981]A[— $0229 8UD.4 T, 
