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NEW CALEDONIA FORESTS NOUMEA. March 6. The war has drawn attention to the value of scientific conservation and exploitation of New Caledonia’s limited forest resources, and it has been decided to create a new office, that of inspector of forests., M. Robert Virol, formerly an official of the Museum of Natural History in Paris, has been appointed to this post tvhich comes under the control of the Economic Affairs Department. Reafforestation, the creation of reserves, fire precautions and the prosecution if lawbreakers will come under his administration. New Caledonian timber is of particular importance to the local mining industry, but at the present time defence needs are paramount. The United States Army is operating the island’s largest timber mill, and certain New Caledonians are taking up contracts to cut aiul haul timber for military purposes. Hitherto most of the timber —in the main kauri and furniture woods—sent overseas, lias gone to Australia.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21051, 24 March 1943, Page 5
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