Rubber Production
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In Papua
Canberra, Sept. 5.
Australia imported i,677 tons of crude rubber from Papua in the year 1944—more than double the total of 770 tons received during 1943. The Minister for Supply and Shipping to-day gave details of Papuan rubber exports to Australia for the past eight years, as follows:
The great bulk of the rubber had gone to NSW. Practically the whole of the crude rubber consumption takes place in NSW and Victoria, and shipments of this material from Ceylon and Papua are so arranged that the stock cover in terms of months is maintained at about the same level in each State.
Colonel H. T, Allen, who has had charge of the base at Wewak, New’
Guinea, for several months, arrived in Sydney early in September, and has finally shed his uniform—which bears upon it the ribbons of World Wars I and 11, including the QBE, awarded for ser vices in the Middle East. He had nearly six years’ service—he was one of the first New Guinea men to join up, in 1939.
After a long rest in Australia—and per haps a visit abroad—he hopes to return to his former status of Mr. “Blue” Allen, goldminer, of Wau, New Guinea.
Tons. 1938 .. 1,243 1939 .. 1.418 1940 .. 1,454 1941 .. 1,311 1942 686 1943 770 1944 . . 1,677 1945 (to July 31) .. .. 967