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The following notes indicate the principal sources of the various 

 articles : — 



Wood Manufactures : United States, 40 per cent. ; Eussia, 

 18 per cent. ; Germany, 13 per cent. ; Sweden, 7-5 per 

 cent. ; France, 6-5 per cent. 



Pulp Wood: Norway, £1,218,000; Sweden, £1,967,000; 

 Canada, £155,000 ; Russia, £315,000 ; Germany, £266,000 '; 

 Newfoundland, £66,000. 



Minor Produce : Cork, £1,075,000, from Portugal, Spain and 

 France ; gutta-percha, £914,000, from Germany, Dutch 

 Guiana, Venezuela ; myrobolans, £171,000, from India ; 

 kauri gum, £627,000, from New Zealand; logwood,' 

 £40,000, from British West Indies and Mexico ; lac dye 

 gum, £443,000, from British India.; tanning substances, 

 £253,000, from Natal and Belgium ; valonia, £165,000, 

 from Turkey ; cutch, £91,000, from British India, Straits 

 Settlements and British Borneo. 



Materials manufactured by Chemical Processes : Resin, 

 £1,003,200 ; turpentine oil, £882,000, from United States' 

 Russia, France ; acetate of hme, £41,000, from United 

 States and Canada ; acetone, £107,000, from United 

 States, Germany and Austria-Hungary ; acetic acid, 

 £84,000, from Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Germany 

 and United States ; tar (other than coal tar), £83,000 from 

 Russia, Sweden, Germany, United States ; methyl alcohol, 

 £56,000, from United States, Germany, Canada, and other 

 foreign States. 



8. Forest Industries. 



The available data showing the extent to which industries are 

 dependent on forest produce are not complete enough to make it 

 worth while giving them here. That dependency is much greater 

 than is frequently supposed. In order to show this the followin" 

 data, taken from the Census of Population of 1911, of the number 

 of persons employed in connection with forests and their products 

 are given in the table on p. 72 : — 



