New Papuan Company

PAPUAN Rural Products Ltd., with a nominal capital of £25,000, in £1 shares, has been registered in Sydney.

The objects of the company are to pur chase, lease or otherwise acquire land in Papua and to carry on the business of sugar growers.

Subscribers to the company are, J.

Burns, R. E. Marshall, A. Hendy, D. G.

McGown, G. L. McNab, C. P. Sander son, C. V. Higham.

The population of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, on June 30, 1929, com prised 29,450 natives, 751 Chinese and 262 Europeans.