INDIA—LAND OF TREES.
r j India is becoming a land of trees, i • One-fifth of the total area of British 1 India is now covered with forests —and ; a profit of nearly £700,000 in one year ' j from ther>e trees has been taken by the ! Government. These facts are shown in the annual i progress report issued by the Imperial . j Forest College at Dehra Dun, United Provinces. When the college was first I established in 1877, the area under the j control of the Forestry Department was [about 18.000 square miles. Xow about ,! 250.000 square miles, or about 22.7 per j cent of the whole area of British India ■j are under the control of the Forestrv
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 14
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