200 INDEX. 
Technique of natural regeneralion—-122 to 125. 
Terai-o-Rahiri and Tutamoe Forests neglected officially —4. 
Thinnings in Kauri forest—87 : thirty ur forty years intervals between them so as not 
to hamper the miller—S85; the three classes in a normal Kauri forest—93: yalue 
of thinning —168. 
Timber :—Classes—the world’s four timber classes—105; Government system of mea- 
suring—75 : growth (see * Growth’’): prices in Hurope—old-time price ld, per c. ft. 
—3; average now from half to a quarter prices in New Zealand—103: prices and 
competition, Europe and New Zealand—186: production or growth per acre per 
year (see “ Acrim”’): “ siands” (see “ Stands’): stocking in a normal Kauri forest 
—84: in a European cultivated forest —85: trade in New Zealand—unfair com- 
petition, coloured labour—l01: units of measurement—77: value of New Zealand 
sompared to EHuropean; the chief New Zealand timbers discussed—109 to 112: 
New Zealand’s two best timbers both peerless—110: Puhipulii Forest (all crops) 
£720 per acre—68 ; Trounson Park (one crop) £166 per acre—-50, 
Tolerant and intolerant trees of New Zealand (see ‘* Shade-bearing ’’). 
Totara forest. its good natural regeneration--127: Totara a cedar—110: trees for— 
135. 
Transition period of 100 years—85, 96, 97: working out the niature timber of the virgin 
forest—86: mid-rotation Kauri reserves—86, 
Trees, number reqguired at the regeneration of a Kauri forest—83. 
Trounson’s princely gift—50: park and growth-rings—-11: rings per inch 7°88—12. 
Tree-planting and gum-diggers—41. 
Tulip tree—18, 135. 
Underrated value of the New Zealand forests (see ** Depreciation—Popular ”’). 
Urewera forests ; some 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 acres of demarcatable forest—186. 
Using and improving forest in South A frica—89. 
Use—Starvation—of timber and firewood in New Zealand one-sixth and one-twenty-fifth 
United States of America—185. 
Value of the native forest—109, 152: of the timber worked at Puhipnhi—60. 
Vasselot, Count de, the French forester—2. 
Virgin forest : timber in the cultivated Kauri forest eight times the wild—82. 
Visitors’ mistakes, seeing cultivated forests without a guide—116. 
Waipoua Kauri Forest—88, 116, 179, 180. (See bulletin, 1918.) 
Walker, late Captain Campbell—-3, 10, 123, 125, 184. 
War and State forestry—2, 3. 
War debt, half « million acres of Kauri to pay the—4. 
War maps, Lesson of the—showing proportion of forest in Eurape—188. 
Waste in sawing—75, 76. 
Wattles—135 (see also Part IT). 
Weed-stopper, dise—133. 
Wellingtonia, or “‘ Big-tree ” (Seguoia gigantea)—45. 
West Coast natural regeneration—127. 
Wild forest : low average stock of Kauri and acriin about 13 only—82?. 
W hae een, : growth, Auckland Domain—1I8: 210 ft. and over—l56, (See alse 
art IL.) 
Western Australia and Insignis-pine : disappointing growth—163. 
Working-plans—T73 (see also Part IT), Working-plan of the * bush” in South Africa—ss. 
Working of the virgin forest : first period—96, 
Work (outdoor) for partially disatled soldiers—134. 
“ Wounding * the soil—117, 
Yearly crops and age classes—112, 
Yellow-wood (Podocarpus spp.) the giant tree of South Africa—25, 28, 47. 
Yield of a Kauri forest—extremes and mean—98 : yield of the forest—timber and 
money—91 to 106: increased yield of Buropean forests—8, 72, 186, 188: yields, 
forests and plantations—151. 
Yield-tables, Schlich and Spiedel—14, 
Yield (tim ber) during transition period, forty lean years with fat years at the end—!2. 
Yield (timber) during transition period, forty lean years with fat years at the end—92. 
Young trees deficient in the dense evergreen forest of New Zealand—80. 
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By Authority: Marous F. Marks, Government Printer, Wellington—1919. 
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