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35 acres, has been established, in which a variety of trees have 

 been planted. Of these, Cedrela Toona is making rapid and 

 vigorous growth, and it should be extensively planted. Many 

 Eucalypts have done well, especially E. salygna, rostrata, and 

 others. In deep, alluvial soil, Tectona grandis has made quite 

 good growth but not in the ordinary red, clayey soils. Other trees 

 which have done well are species of Callitris, Araucaria, Cwpressus 

 and Arlocarjncs fraxin if alius . 



5. Increment and Utilization. 



No data are available. No timber is exported from Nyasaland, 

 and the imports are very small. 



6. Summary and Outlook. 



The normal annual consumption of sawn cypress timber by 

 Government Departments is given as about 13,000 cubic feet. 

 There should be no difficulty in supplying that quantity from the 

 2,200 acres of natural forests, of which about 1,500 are at present 

 accessible. It is stated that, apart from the cypress forests, there 

 is a lack of big timber, and that there is a growing scarcity of pole 

 and firewood throughout the inhabited portions of the country. 

 Under these circumstances, it is urgently necessary to ascertain 

 as rapidly as possible the actual supplies as yet available and the 

 demands likely to arise in the future. On the basis of the data 

 thus obtained, a scheme of future forest policy should be drawn 

 up. Above all, an increased and competent staff should be 

 secured to carry out that programme, and more particularly to 

 select and organise the area of permanent State forests necessary 

 to secure future requirements of forest produce. This, it appears, 

 would involve the establishment of a considerable area of 

 plantations. 



0. SWAZILAND. 



Swaziland is situated on the eastern boundary of the Transvaal 

 between the 25| and 27| degrees of southern latitude. It has an 

 area of G,500 square miles and a population of about 100,00, or 

 about 15 to the square mile. 



For the purpose of Forestry the country may be divided into 

 two parts, the higher and the lower veld. The higher veld 



