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phases. The main difficulty in the past has been to 

 obtain sufficient labour in the woods. Or perhaps it 

 may be better expressed by saying that sufficient labour 

 has not been utilised in the woods. Woods — commer- 

 cially grown woods — require constant supervision. 

 It is not sufficient to plant them and then go away 

 and leave them to shift for themselves up to such 

 period as it may be possible to make a thinning 

 in them which will prove saleable. These old-time 

 methods, combined with others, have brought us to 

 our present position. If we are to maintain in the 

 future that area of woods which our requirements 

 have shown us should in the interests of national 

 economy and safety be kept up in this country, and if 

 we are to make them pay, they will have to be grown 

 properly and given constant attention. For this work 

 both men and women can be employed, in their several 

 departments, with advantage. We are only con- 

 cerned here with the employment of men. 



One of the results of the war will be the necessity of 

 providing work for partially incapacitated soldiers 

 and sailors. They could be utilised in a certain amount 

 of the light forestry work- which does not require the 

 services of able-bodied men. 



There will also be the question of employment for 

 the numbers of young men who, leaving their former 

 sedentary occupations, have gone out to fight for the 

 country. On their return these young men are likely 

 to look with distaste at their former work. They will 

 ask for a more active life. If that life cannot be pro- 

 vided for them in this country they will emigrate. And 

 yet, if a campaign to plant up our waste lands, the 



