143 of the logs, in the peeling of the bark & the peeling of the wood of the beautifully straight logs. Many operation are conducted by electric type & other machine devices. There is no packaging of plywood for the local market. In the Australian market it is done up, about 10-12 sheets together in paper. For export to San Francisco, it is packed in plywood crates. 1911 Shawanda Blinkin being manufactured at present time. At the mill we drove up the slope to the logging area. Topped of a log headdock & saw no actual handling of logs. The lower slopes of the mountain carry Eucalyptus plants of D. blinkii. Unknown in size, but fine trees being small enough to be called saplings. Or in dictionary of mixed rain forest species. Average height of blinkii is about 230 ft., average girth about 10 ft. Gari collects a royalty of 2/- per 100 cubic feet (in Queensland it is in 25/- per 28. cunninghamii) & under later replantation. Tylor station is on a mainland field. Caris on a rotation of 70 years. Riffy trees considered even enough to produce good mill logs. Practically c.11 standing trees (as has been cunninghamii, which germinates established well. Blinkin gives trouble in establishment, though it germinates fairly well & can be satisfactorily transferred to tubers. Visited the Forest Station & talked with Regional Forester David Bun, who did not impress me as being really 10 ft. calibre. Said he had about 15 million young trees ready to go out in March. Affirmed that plant 1000 acres this operational year. Bun says that blinkii occurs a scrub & secondary rocks, never, so far as he knows, a granite. The soil of the blinkii forest is silt, clay, clayey & contains much rusty rock. Growth is not good at the Sandstones, which are too dry for part of the year. This is a soling, which produces a clayey soil. Top personnel in forest & mill are Australians, trained in Canada. About 500 men employed. Only two chiefs of original eight, now in operation & they will slow down in about another year. The lumber question will employ as many men as the gold did. Friday Jan 11: Returned to Tas in the morning. John had to meet G.A.R. Tharby, retired Geologist of A.P.C., who will represent P.N.A. Scientific