INDIRECT ADVANTAGES in 



lighting of the household fires, even the reduced 

 number which the coal shortage permits her to 

 sanction. These are two homely examples directly 

 brought about by the war reacting on the timber 

 supplies. 



In ordinary peace times, however, it is easy for 

 every one of you to realise your great dependence 

 on the products of the forest in the home. Take 

 away the timber parts of your house, and you would 

 find yourself devoid of floors, windows, doors, a 

 roof and furniture, and numerous items of use in 

 the domestic economy of your household too 

 numerous to mention. 



A number of industries, in the absence of their 

 chief material, wood, would come to an end — ^have 

 done so to a great extent in fact, during the latter 

 part of the war. 



Your various methods of locomotion, railway, 

 trams and omnibus, carriage and motor-cars, and 

 the new method, aeroplane, all demand wood in 

 their construction to make them convenient and 

 comfortable vehicles of transport. 



In fact, throughout all the walks of our existence 

 in their various degrees, luxury, utihty, sport or 

 bare necessaries, the products of the forests play 

 an important part in the national economy of a 

 nation. 



The cheapness and abundance of these articles 

 in their several degrees is entirely dependent on 

 whether a nation possesses an adequate areg, of 

 commercial forests of its own or rests dependent for 

 its supplies on the forests of others. 



