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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 23

Timber

Timber.

The ever increasing demand, extending over the past ten years, is well worth passing notice, as, while in 1879, of sawn and hewn we exported only 5,103,189 ft., in 1883, 23,783,521 ft., the quantity in 1888 reached to 43,474,434 ft., being almost 13½ million feet more than was exported in the year ending December 1887, the extra value amounting to the respectable total of 50,000l. The wealth of our rapidly decreasing forests is such as warrants the utmost watchfulness on the part of the Government, to take such measures as will prevent or mitigate needless devastation and destruction. A pleasing feature is the opening of a direct trade with England.

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