BALANCE-SHEET OF A NORMAL KAURI FOREST. 97 
The 100 cub. ft. q.g. acrim is now established over the whole forest, 
but the fully mature timber from this is not fit to cut till the next 
period. 
Expenditure— 
Labour at less than half ordinary European rates for £ 5 d. 
this transition period: One man per 200 acres; 
£150 per man yearly. I take under half the Euro- 
pean rate because 60 per cent. of the European rate 
is for logging, and there will neither be much log- 
ging nor much regeneration work during this period 0 165 0 
Supervision and police: Local stafi—One man per 
3,000 acres, at £100 (one-third pay military; 
French rate, one man per 2,000 acres; police-work 
here less than in France) xf. * ie Ds ae 
Material and direction taking a round sum of £1,500 
yearly for the Waipoua Forest (30,000 acres). 
This would include regular expenditure, such as 
for seeds and tools, but not extraordinary charges 
such as for aménagement or ‘‘ working-plans,”’ 
Rangers’ cottages, or new roads, all of which would 
be paid for out of the virgin forest timber ee 
0 
wWi\O 
1 
16 
£ 

Therefore average net revenue per acre for 
transition period (£2 Os. 10d., less 16s. 8d.) £1 4 2 

These figures will necessarily vary with the present quality and future 
prospects of the forest. For a forest that can economically be put into 
good order now by thinning and interplanting the above figures may 
be taken as useful general guides. They make no claim to exactitude 
The economic value of each forest will be shown by its classification at 
demarcation and the subsequent ‘‘ working-plan.’’: 
The revenue figure here taken as a rough average at about £1 4s. 2d. 
will at first depend entirely on the present quality of the forest. This 
can be easily gauged, but will vary greatly. ' Later, as the forest ap- 
proaches a normal condition, there will be less variation, since the figure 
will depend on thinnings in a better-stocked and more regular forest. 
As average figures for the Kauri forests that I have seen and had 
described to me‘ these figures may be taken as sufficient for general 
guidance. Their limits of variation may le between a forest just pay- 
ing its way, as in the case of a poor or badly placed forest, to figures 
considerably higher than here estimated, as in the case of a well-placed 
Kauri forest containing a good stock of young timber, like Trounson’s 
Kauri Park, for instance. 
Tarrp Prerrop.—NorMaAaL Ficures For THE Kaurr Forest my FULL 
W ORKING-ORDER. 
The forest by this time, 80 to 120 years hence, is fully stocked, or 
somewhere near it. This is the first essential, for fertile New Zealand 
is not the country for unproductive land! The forest is also well on its 
way to that gradation of ages which is essential to regular production 
coupled with economical milling. Foresters will gradually complete the 
age-classes as they regulate the fellings. For this third period it be- 
comes possible to frame with more exactitude the figures of revenue 
4—Forestry. 
