Experimental reafforestation
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Degraded Soil In Fiji
May Be Rehabilitated
in the Drasa area of Viti Levu indicates that degraded soil in one of Fiji’s dry regions may be re habilitated.
Plantings of nokonoko (casuarma or ironwood) and eucalyptus citrio dora have been successful in ex tremely poor soil in open, badly mutilated nokonoko forest.
Forestry Department officers be lieve that, with proper management and protection, stands of trees suit able for fuel, housebuilding poles, pitprops and even hardwood timber can be raised.
Meanwhile, at Nadarivatu, high in the rainy mountain country, intro duced trees are flourishing. Pines in “pure plantation” in open fern land and Cyprus and mahogany underplanted in exploited forest are growing fast.
If The Rev. C. F. Gribble, general secretary of the Methodist Over seas Missions in Australia, left Sydney on May 26 for a six weeks’ visit to Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.
U Mr. John Cruikshank, only son of Dr. J. M. Cruikshank, Director of Medical Services, Fiji, and Mrs.
Cruikshank, was married in Sydney in late May to Miss Judith O’Neill, of Arncliffe, NSW.