Nei Timber Production
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rE East Indonesian Minister for Economic Affairs, announced in Macassar recently that timber pro duction exceeded pre-war figures during the first half of 1947.
In South Borneo where one of the largest timber mills in the world is being built by a Dutch firm, experiments are being conducted with “sea floats-” A number of tree trunks, are collected in a dock and fastened together with heavy chains. After the walls of the dock, which are hinged to the bottom, are let down, the float is ready to be towed away. It is intended to attempt to tow strings of these floats from Borneo to Java.
During the occupation the Japanese conducted a similar experiment. Three floats left Borneo in tow for Japan, but only one reached there.
Mrs. Terry O’Sullivan of Brisbane, left bv plane recently to join her husband at Wau (NG).