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It required considerable cooperation and assistance from officers of the Mining Wardens Office and the police to redress this risk to government forestry plantations. Native miners did not require an official license to operate but were granted leases and were assisted by an officer assigned to this task, in this case Mr. Ray Frazer. A similar fire risk also resulted from employees of leaseholders with forestry boundaries in the Kauli Creek area extending their gardening into forestry land left as “green breaks.” Fire lookouts equipped with knapsack sprays were maintained in the Kauli Creek area at this time.

Note No. 6. The first buildings constructed at the Cedar Creek Forest Station were of native materials. These included a compound building, a store, and a shade house structure. The shade house was intended to hold orchids salvaged from the crowns of trees during the plantation site clearing. This was an arrangement with the Division of Botany in Lae. However, the shock of removal to ground level appeared too great and this project failed.

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Reference No. 2 Lane-Poole, C.E. Report, The Forest Resources of the Territories of Papua, and New Guinea,’ 1925. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Reference No. 3. Lane-Poole, C.E. ,1935 A report on the forests of the goldfields of New Guinea, together with recommendations regarding forest policy for the whole Territory. Commonwealth Forestry Bureau, Canberra.

Reference No. 4. Booth, Doris R., 1929, Mountains, Gold and Cannibals, Cornstalk Press, Australia.

Reference No. 5 Wikipedia: Wau, Papua New Guinea.