Papuan Sugar.

MR. E. GALLET, who left for Papua by last “Macdhui” and who is inter ested in sugar production in that territory, said in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, that it was not the intention of Papuan sugar interests to compete with Queensland, but with Java and Cuba.

The company concerned with the en terprise, he said, anticipated an average yield of 40 to 50 tons of sugar-cane to the acre.

Mr. Gallet, who is returning to Papua to commence clearing and planting, said he believed that Papuan sugar could be landed in England for £5/15/6 a ton, compared with £9/5/6 and £8/8/4, the prices now paid in England for sugar from Java and Cuba. Papua would also receive a preferential tariff of £3/14/8 a ton. There was any amount of good labour to be secured. Natives were em ployed in the fields at 10/- a month plus rations. The company’s property was one of 20,000 acres.