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28 TASMANIAN FORESTS: THEIR BOTANY AND ECONOMICAL VALUE. 
last thirty years, there is vb a doubt a supply for fifty years 
at ae same rate of productio 
only way to ceireat. the wholesale destruction of the 
hey 
rite done in Victoria. This is what the sawyers and splitters 
erying out for, vig as yet without effect. I do not under- 
fake to pronounce an ion on a ae which may have 
political difficulties ump piodia able by me; but it does seem a 
mistaken liberty to allow selectors to settle on land of great 
value as a timber forest but useless for agriculture, until the 
whole of the valuable timber is ruthlessly destro oyed. It seems 
to me Sire as long as any available can be obtained 
m timber, or with timber of little value upon it, no 
forests of Tasmania, pwr and priceless as they once were, 
will soon be things of the p 
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