TANGANYIKA FORESTS TO BE OPENED UP
Forests in Tanganyika, a subtropical country in East Africa as big as England and France, are being opened up. A belt of trees encircling the lower slopes of tho 19,000-foot -high volcano, Mount Kilimanjaro, in this area, are proving especially prolific. This belt is 120 miles long with an average width of five miles, and is stated to contain 320,000 acres of marketable timber, including valuable camphorwood, comparable to teak and used for railway tics among other purposes. There is also soft wood, which is said to be similar to but superior to pine.
In on address given in London, Eng., Major Percival Blunt, who was on the staff of General Smuts during the reorganisation period after the war, said Tanganyika offers even more favourable conditions for the white settler than Kenya. Tho chief exports are sisal, coffee, cotton and copra. Trade there has doubled since 1913.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6804, 7 January 1929, Page 5
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