NATIVE FOREST AND PLANTATIONS OF INTRODUCED TREES. 171 
New Zealand should have some 16 million acres permanently under 
forest, but on account of the mountainous character of so much of the 
land the higher Japanese standard is indicated, this being necessary 
to secure the highest production from the land and the largest popula- 
tion on it. 
As has been seen, it is to national forests worked up gradually to 
the European standard that New Zealand may look, in the next genera- 
tion, for bearing the cost of this war and eventually much other taxation 
as well. As in Europe, national forestry means national wealth. This 
is the lesson drawn from European forestry—first by India, then by 
Japan, then by South Africa, then by the United States of America, and 
now, within the last few years, by the most advanced of the Australian 
States. Is New Zealand to remain always in the background? 
