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Show CANADA HOLDS PAPERMATERIAt Forestry Conference Hears Ex-planation Ex-planation by Pulp Wood Official NEW LONDON, N. H.. Aug:. 25. BdWard Beck, of Montreal, Secretary "t the Canadian Pulp an 1 I'aper association, as-sociation, !I1 a forestry conference here today 'hat the question of removing: remov-ing: restrictions upon the exportation of pulpwood from the crown lands of Canada to the United States, was one i for judicial determination rather than for political notation. The conference was held under the auspice of the Society for the Protection Protec-tion of New Hampshire forests, and was .ittended by forestry experts and i paper makers from the United States and Canada. Mr. Beck was Invited to present Canada's side of the pulp-wood pulp-wood controversy, brought to notice by the passage in congress of the Un-J I derwood resolution, culling for an American commission to visit Canada, with the view to obtaining the re- moval restrictions on pulpwood ex- porta Mr Beck declared 'hat Canada had no reason to avoid Inquiry Into the "f Its timber laws by any Impartial Im-partial tribunal. He wild It was not true lh.it the present shortago of printing i pet In the United Btates was charge- able to the Canadian timber regulations, regula-tions, but that it w.is due to world wide conditions, aggravated by the "Inordinate use of paper by both Amer-Ican Amer-Ican and Canadian publishers." He declared de-clared that free access to Canada's pulpwood would not give American P ul. Ushers cheaper or more abundant paper, as hail been claimed. Mr Beck asserted thai the Canadian pulpwood restrictions did not apply to privately owned lands from which more than l.O'Mi.Onn cords of pulp-VOOd pulp-VOOd were annually exported to the United Sines. In addition, he said Canada exports nearly t. 00.000 tons of pulp, about fiT.o.ooo tons of paper to the United States every year, comprising compris-ing approximately one-ninth of the I American pulp consumption and onc-thlid onc-thlid of all the newsprint pupercon-sumcd pupercon-sumcd in or exported from the united St iti Restrictions on the exports of pulp- ' wood from the crown lands, he declared, de-clared, were brought about solely by the desire to conserve the pulpwood resource! nd utilize their products for the up-bullding uf thr pulp and paper Industries within the Canadian prov-, Inces. and with no intent to Injure American Industrie.?. snow s REAL lssi E. ( "The real question at Issue,' he said, "Is not whether this materi.il shall be available for the use of American Amer-ican publishers, but whether the mn- 1 terlal i ut from these lands shall go In the forin of raw pulpwood to rhc United States, or shall be put through at least one stage of manufacture In Canada," So far as Canada's pulpwood Is being cut. B high perc-ntage of It already was going to the United state In one form or another. "Without a very heavy increase In the rate of cur -t'nr. Involving the early destruction of' the supply, no relief to American pub-Ushers pub-Ushers from this means would he Im-' possible' said Mr. Beck. Quebec s pulpwood Is now being consumed at the rate of over 1.000,000 cords a year, and the het informed expert opinion estimated the resources of that pro- : vlncr would last not more than fifty years at the present rate of consumption, consump-tion, said tho speaker, who declared that Quebec's forests already are threatened with early exhaustion. Canadr 's great need today, said Mr. I Beck, like that of the New England states. Is for the Inauguration of a reforestation policy that will Insure .1 1 j permanent supply of timber for her I ; oodconsumlng Industries Without it. i i he predicted the same fate for the Canadian pulp and paper Industry that 1 now threatening the Amerl- , can To open the crown lands at this, time to unrestricted exploitation, he said, would only hasten such a condition condi-tion nnd In the end benefit nobody. I rtrt |