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[?]inkii Arouses Interest
East Africa
HHE Klinkii Pine, of the New L Guinea Highlands region, has been exciting some interest ,tely. Klinkii shares, with Hoop ine~ the great jungles around the ulolo River, upon which the Com lonwealth New Guinea Timbers td., plywood enterprise (successors i the BGD enterprise) is based.
Re-forestation follows closely pon the timber-cutting, above ulolo; but when the tree-planters )t seriously to work a couple of ;ars ago they found that there ere very few young Klinkii on the ountain-sides. For some unknown sason, Klinkii, a considerable time jo, had ceased to propagate itself.
However, the Forestry people now ave got masses of seedlings moving ong. Most of the newly lorestated area, in recent years, >mprise Hoop Pine; but Klinkii )w is being planted generously.
Klinkii aroused the eager atten □n of a party of 14 timber cperts, delegates to the British ammonwealth Forestry Con- Tence now being held in Australia id New Zealand. They visited the ulolo area in mid-August.
Professor Sir Harry Champion, the Imperial Forestry Institute, xford, said that Bulolo’s Klinkii rests were the most useful stands timber in the British Common ealth. It was first-quality, clean mber, with a straight stem and very rapid rate of growth. It as a light soft wood of a first ass general purpose type.
It was just this type of timber which East Africa was lacking, .id Sir Harry, and Klinkii now as being planted in Tanganyika, ut, Klinkii seeds were proving ost difficult to transport—they tuld not stand rapid temperature lapges.