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to become general logging superintendent of the Anglo-Newfoundland 

 Development Co., Grand Falls, Newfoundland. 



Geo. W. Thompson (Biltmore, 1911), formerly with the Hammond 

 Lumber Co., has opened an office as forest engineer at Winlock, Wash. 



7. Hawaii, the Philippines, and the Orient 



The present address of Oliver F. Bishop is Kisavan, Asahan, 

 Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. 



Devillo D. Wood, a graduate in Forestry at Alichigan Agricul- 

 tural College, 1911, is now Assistant Conservator of Forests in Brit- 

 ish North Borneo. The Conservator, D. AI. Matthews, University 

 of Michigan, 1909, has been in India since November. 



A forest school, the first of its kind in Australia, has been estab- 

 lished at Creswick, on the Dividing Range, some 10 miles northward 

 of Ballarat. Pupils are accepted between the ages of 14 and 16, after 

 passing a competitive and medical examination, and are required to 

 go through a course of training for three years. The aim of the 

 Forest Department throughout has been to give students a thorough 

 training in practical forestry, while giving class teaching its due 

 place. The subjects taught are: English, Arithmetic, Algebra, Botany, 

 Geology, Physics, Chemistry, and Surveying. Daily instruction is also 

 given in a large tree nursery near the school, where the annual output 

 is over 4,000,000 plants. A pine plantation of some 700 acres bearing 

 conifers from 13 to 22 years old surrounds this nursery, and the stu- 

 dents are given regular training in planting, thinning, measurement, 

 and estimating of timber crops, felling, and conversion of timber, on 

 this area. In the vicinity there are also two large reserves of natural 

 forest. In these, students have the opportunity of studying the habits, 

 growth, and methods of felling and converting eucalyptus timber. 



