Industry
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Pacific Timber Industry Aneityum Kauri Being Worked
A keen search for good timber has been proceeding in most of the South Pacific Islands during the past two years, and some enterprising people—es pecially Australian syndicates—are likely to make fortunes out of what they have discovered.
We have on previous occasions reported the development of important industries in New Guinea, the British Solomon Is lands, and Fiji. Now we have word that an Australian group has commenced operations in the New Hebrides island of Aneityum, where large stands of kauri timber have been discovered. About 80 tons of equipment has been landed there.
The PIM cannot resist saying “I told you so”. Long years ago, when the Pacific Islands Year Book was first compiled, and much data relating to the rich forest resources of the various Pacific territories were assembled, the PIM urged that there were enormous undeveloped riches in these timber forests of the South Seas.