Timber Resources Of Papua
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From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Oct. 6.
IT is understood, in view of the pros pective shortage of timber in Aus tralia during the period of war, that in vestigations are being made to ascertain the possible supplies that might be made available from Papua, to replace timbers formerlv imported from Canada and the
U.S.A.
Dr. A. S. Prater, superintendent of the Presbyterian Mission’s Paton Memorial Hospital at Vila. New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney in October with his wife. They will spend three months’ furlough in Victoria. Dr. Prater is the son of Rev.
Maurice Prater, who is a missionary for the Presbyterian Church at Paama, New Hebrides, where he has already spent some 40 years and still is in active ser vice.