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established a most efficient control over the present 
forest resources of that country, the systematic felling 
and control of the timber, and the organization of re- 
planting with a view to a continuity of future supplies 
being an example of State management which might 
well be followed in other countries. 
Japan has an excellent and old-established system 
of State regulation of-her forests, but few other countries 
in the East have taken the question in hand. 
Slight attempts have been made from time to time in 
the various divisions of Australia to arrest the depletion 
of woodlands, but on no scale of importance, and in 
New Zealand there has been little movement in that 
direction. 
On the African Continent, France consefves much 
forest land in Algiers and Morocco, the area being reported 
as something like 5,000,000 acres, and controls, it is 
understood, the timber in her possessions on the Ivory 
Coast and in the Congo Territory. 
On the same West Coast the Southern Nigerian 
possessions have been placed under the control of an 
experienced Forest Conservator, with the object of 
securing reports on the forest resources of the country ; 
and to prevent excessive exploitation with a view to 
continuous supplies. Doubtless the valuable mahogany 
and other timbers of this locality will now be secure 
from reckless cutting, and replanting will systematically 
replace the timber that is exported. 
In the great districts of the southern parts of Africa— 
Cape Colony, the. Transvaal, Natal and other divisions, 
there is a lack of timber, especially of that suitable for 
general building purposes. Very large quantities might 
be grown for the use of the community and for the 
benefit of agricultural areas, but little interest apparently 
is ever taken in such a question. 
