Tenders for New Guinea Timber
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TENDERS for the purchase of a per mit to cut and remove about 50,000- 000 super feet of Hoop and Klinkii pine and a similar quantity of cedar and other timbers from the Bulolo Valley.
New Guinea, which were to close on December 2. have been extended to March 10, 1939, to permit of those in terested obtaining some knowledge of the conditions that would obtain following the Government’s decision to build the road from Wau to Salamaua. Mr. Harrison.
Minister for Territories, made the an nouncement on November 27.
Mr. Harrison said that the Govern ment intended to adopt a plan of re afforestation in the Bulolo Valley, under which annual plantings would, in the course of 30 to 50 years, re-establish the forest progressively.
Mr. L. Morris, formerly on the staff of Islands Exploration Co. at Madang, New Guinea, has taken up duties at Pt.
Moresby, Papua, as accountant for both Islands Exploration Co. and Australian Petroleum Co.