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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 66

Extent of Forest Land

page 14

Extent of Forest Land.

The estimated proportion of forest land in each provincial district is as under:—
Percentage of Forest land
North Island—
Auckland 9.449
Hawke's Bay 11.803
Taranaki 83.013
Wellington 57.142
South Island—
Nelson 14.434
Marlborough 19.301
Canterbury 4.306
Westland 62.809
Otago 8.729
Southland 8.729

Further particulars will be found in the table relating to the Crown lands of the colony, shown on the table of statistics attached to this book.

The value of the export trade in timber for the decade 1868-77 amounted to £333,083, increasing from £15,653 in the former year to £50,901 in 1877. The trade is now rapidly growing, and in 1884 the total export was £152,932, of which £129,367 was for sawn timber.