64 HE PUHIPUHI KAURI FOREST. 
Here we are on firm ground. An acrim of 219 c. it. may be com- 
pared ith any of the Subiated Forest Yield Tables, with the list given 
in my ‘‘ Forestry in Cyprus’? (Colonial Office, 1909), with various 
references in ‘‘ Australian Forestry,’’ or with the list in the Statistical 
Appendix (Part II). An acrim of 219 c. ft. full cubage 1s undoubtedly 
high for a’ wild forest average. As above, I have taken one-fourth of it, 
The following recorded ‘‘ stands’’ of timber, in addition to those 
mentioned above and on p. 85, afford an interesting comparison with 
my estimate of the original stand of Kauri at Puhipuhi :— 
TIMBER ‘‘STANDS.”’ 
Various Stanps or TimBer (P#r AcRE) ror Comparison.* 
Sample area recently measured at Waipoua increased toafull stand” 6. ft. Sup. ft. 
(McGregor’s maximum) - ae “ .. 11,000 66,000 
Kirk’s maximum, as above .. ; . 12,000 72,000 
Maximum stand over small areas of millable timbers in New 
Zealand (‘* Forestry in New Zealand”: Lands Department, 
1909) : “4 a7 a on .- $,233 49,398 
Average stand, Black Forest, Germany, when they are starting 
: the regeneration cuttings . ses a P.. 9,000 81,000 
Average stand Spruce and Silver-fir (‘‘ Yield Tables,” Sehlich), 
medium-quality forest, at 120 years of age a .. 8,500 76,500 
Podocarpus forest of South Africa (same class of forest as ‘* mixed ” 
New Zealand)—maximum recorded (Fourcade) « .- 10,000 90,000 
Normal stand of the cultivated Kauri forest—107 Kauri trees of 
93 c. ft. q.g. each (taking 1 c. ft. = 9 board feet) .- 9,951 89,559 
Average stand assumed for the Puhipuhi Forest, at a quarter o 
the maximum as described by various observers .. .. 10,000 60,000 
Thus the average stand taken for the Puhipuhi Forest is actually no 
more than the figure assumed for the normal cultivated forest of the 
future (p. 84). I wish it to be remembered that in this Puhipuhi dis- 
cussion I have everywhere taken the lowest figure possible. 
THE LOSS—(a) VIRGIN FOREST, (6) FUTURE TIMBER CROPS. 
THe Lost Timper Crop or THE VIRGIN Forest. 
During the quarter-century when the Puhipuhi Forest was being 
gradually worked and burnt, Kauri sawn timber was worth about 10s. per 
100 sup. ft. (Kirk, p. 154), while the royalty value or stumpage had a 
nominal value of from 6d. to Is. per 100 sup. ft. If there had been a 
forest policy in those days the Kauri forests would have been demarcated, 
organized with roads, &e., and the Kauri timber worked at half or one- 
third of what it has cost to extract without roads, while the royalty would 
have borne some relation to the market value of the timber. Under the 
abnormal forest policy followed the prices of those days signify little. 
The royalty of thirty years ago—6d. to 1s. per 100 sup. ft. on the mill 
output—represented perhaps 3d. to 6d. per 100 sup. ft. in the squared 
log. But this 3d. or 6d. per 100 sup. ft. was not the market royalty or 


* In the above stands of timber | c. ft. q.g. is taken as equal to 6 sup ft. for old Ne 
. ft. q.g. S equa sup. or old New 
Papi pens ki allow for the wasteful log-working of thins days. it may be noted 
Thea. Rison ‘ i Bane Se rea a: = 6 hoard feet is a general official American factor. 
Ga ate: 'P nd Sou African figures are taken 1 c. ft. — 9 board feet. This allows 
rt rather poor milling (a 25-per-cent, waste) but no waste otherwise The European 
log is reckoned down to 3 in diam 
» In. eter at the eee e. ‘ . : 
the wasteful working of New Zealand Bean small end. This end piece is allowed for in 
