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forests should be made and to visit only a few of the most suitable local¬ 
ities for the purpose of collecting the necessary information. It must, 
therefore, be clearly understood that, though the forests, which are de¬ 
scribed in this report and which are shown on the maps, are favourable 
localities, from which bamboos can be extracted at cheap rates and are 
geographically well situated for that purpose, they are by no means the 
only places in British India in which it would be possible to work a 
pulp-mill at a profit. 
Some explanation is necessary as to the limited scope of this enquiry, 
as regards locality. Up to date no firm or company has taken up the 
manufacture of pulp from bamboos in this country, and the object of 
this enquiry is to try and induce a firm to do so, as it is thought that if a 
commencement is once made and if the experiment proves, or clearly 
promises to be commercially successful, an industry of considerable 
importance may well be established. With this object in view, a 
limited number of localities have been chosen, which are considered 
suitable for the purpose, and about which definite information is given 
in this report. 
The places selected for examination were Lower Burma and the West 
Coast of the Indian Peninsula, as both localities are geographically well 
situated for import and export purposes and also contain vast areas 
covered with bamboos. In Burma five localities were visited of which 
a careful inspection was made, namely, the Kangoon, Tharrawaddy, 
Pyinmana, Toungoo and Arakan Divisions. In Bombay three were 
inspected, namely, one partly in the North and partly in the West Kanara 
Forests Divisions, a second entirely in the Western Division and a third 
in the East Kanara Forest Division. In Madras a similar number 
were selected, namely, one in the South Canara Division, and one in 
each of the North and South Malabar Forest Divisions. The report, 
therefore, deals with five possible areas, from which bamboos could be 
exploited for the purpose of manufacturing pulp in Burma, and six on the 
West Coast of India. 
In 1905 the Government of Burma invited Mr. B. W. Sindall, F.C.S. 
(London), a paper-pulp expert, to visit that country with a view to enquir¬ 
ing into the possibility of manufacturing paper-pulp. His report on the 
subject appeared in March 1906, and is one of great value. In it he 
laid down the lines along which further enquiry should be made, and it 
is largely on his proposals that the present enquiry has been based. 
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