Damage to Rubber
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Plantations
yo true estimate has been made, as II yet, as to the damage to rubber and other plantations in the area. Owners nd managers have been permitted to
enter the area which was closed after the eruption, in order to assess the damage to crops.
It is understood that litle damage has been done to the rubber property known as Sangara Rubber Plantation, Ltd.— estimates put it at 4 per cent. Damage to plantations at Awala are believed to be about 12 per cent.
Rubber plantations appeared to miss the full force of the blast which destroyed all vegetation around Higaturu.
Dr. W. G. Woolnough, Australian Commonwealth Government Geological Adviser, retired at the end of January, aged 75. He retired once before but was recalled during the Pacific War. He led several expeditions to Papua-New Guinea to search for oil and probably knows more about that Territory’s volcanoes that any one else.
A map of Mt. Lamington area.