Valuable N. Guinea
pp. 119-120 · Read in the full issue
Timber
SOME very fine cedar and pine timber is being produced by Mr. A. L. Malcolm and Mr. Joe Bourke, of Wau, New Guinea, from va?S Se u B l acres in the Bulolo Valley which they recently acquired.
This lease was pegged by Harry
Wormald before the war. It is small but it carries a valuable stand of cedar. he ?f timber properties are very difficult to get. The New Guinea Administration is .guarding them jealously and trying to compel all timber-getters to plant as many trees as they remove. ! s intention of Messrs.
Malcolm and Bourke to try to in duce the Administration to permit the settlement of ex-Servicemen as coffee-growers, on this 88 acres lease, when they have removed the timber.
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm were visi tors to Sydney at the end of Sep tember. H
Miss Nancy Snodgrass, of Sydney, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs. E. C. Allpress, of Nausori, Fiji, has announced her engagement to Mr. David Langdale, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lang dale, of Suva.