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Shared note	THE MOTU FOREST. Star , Issue 7045, 11 March 1901, Page 3 [Per Press Association.] GISBORNE, March 11. At a meeting of the Motu Settlers' Association, the complete report of Mr James Prouse, the well-known Levin sawniiller, on the Motu Forest, was received. This states that though he had only been able to inspect a portion of the district, there were within sight thirty miles of bush, four miles wide, of excellent timber, worth fully a. million pounds. He saw specimens of white pine and rimu six feet in diameter at the butt and sixty or seventy feet in the bole; also matai five and six feet in the butt and thirty and forty feet in the bole. The meeting decided to urge on the Government, in the strongest possible manner, the completion of a railway to tap this forest, which under advancing settlement is rapidly being destroyed.

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THE MOTU FOREST.
Star , Issue 7045, 11 March 1901, Page 3

[Per Press Association.] GISBORNE, March 11. At a meeting of the Motu Settlers' Association, the complete report of Mr James Prouse, the well-known Levin sawniiller, on the Motu Forest, was received. This states that though he had only been able to inspect a portion of the district, there were within sight thirty miles of bush, four miles wide, of excellent timber, worth fully a. million pounds. He saw specimens of white pine and rimu six feet in diameter at the butt and sixty or seventy feet in the bole; also matai five and six feet in the butt and thirty and forty feet in the bole. The meeting decided to urge on the Government, in the strongest possible manner, the completion of a railway to tap this forest, which under advancing settlement is rapidly being destroyed.

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James Prouse Father: Richard ii Prouse Mother: Janet Gorrie				2 October 1853	171	5	9 February 1918	106	64	Levin, New Zealand	Wednesday, 11 July 2012 06:07	M	YES	YES
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