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forest service which encourages reforestation, advises in this work 

 and administers the State forest areas. One school is maintained to 

 train foresters for the country and its possessions. 



Dutch East Indies 



The Dutch East Indies are at present the object of solicitude on 

 the part of the Netherlands Government with respect to their forest 

 resources as a part of a program of colonial development of these 

 resources. The total area of these possessions in forest acreage is 

 estimated to amount to about 230,000,000 acres, rich in teak. In Java 

 there has long been forestry activity under a forest service maintain- 

 ing an experiment station. 



Dutch Guiana 



Dutch Guiana is heavily forested with a total area of about 26,500,- 

 ooo forested acres, largely in government ownership. Valuable 

 species of wood are exported and the import is at a minimum. The 

 comparative lack of settlement and consequent lack of exploitation 

 has not necessitated any system of forestry practice. 



Dutch West Indies 



There is virtually no tree growth of forest importance on the 

 islands of the Dutch West Indies group, and imports from the United 

 States meet the local demand. 



New Zealand 



Commercial timber in New Zealand is not a large resource as a 

 result of extensive logging off of the land and considerable loss by 

 fire. The government owns about 10,000,000 acres of State Forest, 

 but hardly 15 per cent, of this is merchantable timber, and the pro- 

 ductive forest area is not believed to total much more than two million 

 acres. New Zealand, however, is now turning its attention to re- 

 building its lost assets through its Forestry Department and both 

 governmental and private planting. 



Nicaragua 



Forests cover some 22,000,000 acres of Nicaragua, according to 

 estimates, and the government owns a large percentage. There is a 



