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Date: 1950-02-18
The advent of the chain saw revolutionised the forestry industry and made a nonsense of the predictions of a top Forestry Commission official. Addressing Hexham Horticultural Society at a meeting in the Queen?s Caf?, Mr. F. Garthwaite predicted that by 1975 there would be 6,000 workers employed in Kielder Forest, living in a series of new villages, with their own community centres, cinemas and shopping complexes.
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