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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 12070, 25 October 1913, Page 3 (Supplement)

Throughout Europe the forests hav«. been eared for with the .greatest attention for centuries until , to-day. they constitute an immense source of the national wealth of many countries; Thi> best dercloned forests in the world are those of Germany. The public and,private forests of Germany are at present valued at £900,000,00,0. In Austria the State forests comprise two mil--lion acres. The Trench Gbvernme-jit :alsp derives immeiiso wealth from the State forests and controls at present some 1.y00.,0r>0 acres. Tibet's dalai lama was greatly disturbed by the first phonograph Tie saw'. 'Edmund' Chandler, when in LhasSa, with.' the Yotinghusband exp'editibti, /heard from the -Nepalese resident how lie had recently brought the uneanliv 'toy as a present from the: MaharajaTi ~ of Nepal to the priest-kingy The dalai •lama''walked '-around it ; urieasily'-fis'it. Wared forth an English ba.nd: piccd and ,na indelicate - Bhtitaneso song.' %Th"en' h>, thought for a long while;.said.' he could hot live' with'JthisYoiSb .without a soul.. So it was pa'sse'd oh: ; ia somebody else.