AREAS OF SUPPLY 5 



We ourselves grow only insignificant amounts, usually 

 absorbed and used locally, and now being cut out to 

 supply a great deficit in imports. Our main supplies 

 are imported. The bulk of these come from Europe, 

 chiefly Russia, Sweden, and Norway, with smaller 

 amounts from France, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. 

 Both Germany and Austria-Hungary, it is interesting 

 to note, possess large areas of well-conserved and 

 managed forests, although their exports to us in the 

 past have been comparatively small. Of the materials 

 here considered, the bulk of the supplies, outside 

 Europe, come from the United States of America and 

 Canada. The export and import of heavy forest 

 materials such as timber from and to any country 

 is determined by the geographical position of that 

 country. For a long time Sweden and Norway, e.g., 

 have been felling their woods, and exporting the 

 materials both to Europe (Great Britain, France, 

 Germany, Belgium, Holland, Spain), and even to 

 Africa and the Cape. Austria-Hungary before the 

 war sent material to Germany, Italy, France, Greece, 

 Turkey, Rumania, all of whom are her neighbours. 

 Canada and the United States export their materials 

 by the Pacific to Asia, and by the Atlantic to Great 

 Britain, France, Portugal, and Germany. Russia 

 exports largely to Great Britain — also, before the war, 

 to Germany, France, and Holland. 



From our point of view, the great exporting country 

 of cheap woods is Russia, who sent us in 1913 about 

 £15,000,000 sterling worth of wood materials out of 

 our total import of forest produce for that year of 

 £42,725,000. Since I hold the opinion that our im- 



