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Mr. Cheyne is a Scotchman and an Oxford graduate of 1911 who 

 immediately thereafter began an eight-years' straight period of service 

 in the inhospitable climatic conditions of Burma. Ordinarily he would 

 have been granted leave every three years, but this was precluded on 

 account of the war. For the last five years in Burma he has been 

 specialist in extraction. "Extraction" in Burma is the name given, not 

 to anything resembling destructive distillation of wood, or the turpen- 

 tine industry, but means the harvesting of the timber crop. Thus he 

 resembles in his function our logging engineers. It is in this capacity 

 that he was sent to this country to study our logging methods. 



