Beatrice Grimshaw To Grow
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Tobacco.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, Jan. 10.
Miss Beatrice Grimshaw, The
noted novelist, who has recently re turned from a visit to Rossel Is land, to get local colour for a new novel, has bought a property on the Laloki River, 15 miles from Port Moresby, owned previously by Messrs. Flynn and Adams and called the Laloki Tobacco Plantation.
Miss Grimshaw intends planting to bacco and is making arrangements to secure a manager for the property.
Papuan tobacco has a market in Eng land and it is not long ago that over three shillings a pound was offered for a good grade of tobacco from Papua.