Trees Of The Western
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Book Review:
Pacific
\ LTHOUGH there has been no lack of Australian interest in the timber resources of the South West Pacific in recent years, no one has bothered to
write much about them since C. E. Lane- Poole gave us “Forest Resources of the Territories of Papua and New Guinea”, in 1925.
Recently to hand, however, is a book called “Trees of the Western Pacific Region” by J. Hugo Kraemer. which is printed in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA—of all unlikely places.
Kraemer, who is Associate in Forestry
at Purdue University’s Agricultural Ex periment Station, originally assembled! the information in the book for the; armed services during the war. To the; basic facts have been added, in this, volume, the observations of those whoi served in the area. The author obviously; has done a great deal of research intoi the timber of the region found between! 25 degrees N. latitude and 15 degrees S.. latitude and from 95 degrees to 1651 degrees E. longitude. This takes in New Guinea, Papua, Bougainville, etc., as well! as the Malay Peninsula, Indonesia,, Borneo, Philippines and other parts of Australia’s Nearer East.
There are 156 drawings of the foliage; of trees of the area, almost 400 pages of descriptions of the trees and their woods giving local names as well as; botanical; copious indexes and a valuable bibliography.
The book is, no doubt, of considerable value to those interested in the timber industry, but no price is given and even if it were there would be the usual dollar trouble involved in buying any thing from the United States. Those interested would probably do best by contacting Tri-State Offset Company, 817 Main Street, Cincinnati 2, Ohio, who print and distribute the book.
Fiji’s new Financial Secretary, Mr.
H. W. Davidson, has now taken up duty in Suva.