No More Wooden

Houses

Tahiti's New Law

From Our Own Correspondent A REGULATION which will save the remnant of forest trees on Tahiti and thus prevent our rivers and brooks from becoming bone-dry courses at one period and raging torrents when ever rain falls in the mountains, has just been announced.

It has been enacted that, henceforth, the erection of wooden buildings is inter dicted in any part of Papeete. Building permits will be granted only for buildings of brick, stone or cement.

This excellent regulation has come just in time. Already a great number of the finest trees on the island have been sacrificed. Wood-choppers and those who employ them know little, and care less, of the effect of forest destruction on the water supply and the fertility of a region.