Sugar Industry Would

Help Papua

On arrival in Sydney from Thursday Is., the Lieutenant-Governor of Papua, Sir Hubert Murray told the newspapers that sugar-cane growing would mean much to Papua. Although there had been difficulty in obtaining capital for the industry, he believed it would eventually “put the country on its feet.” There were many things in favor of sugar-cane growing in Papua, and the labour would be cheaper than in some of the other cane-growing countries with which Papua might com pete.

Sir Hubert Murray is now on three months’ leave, and is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Pinney, the wife of the administrator of Norfolk Island.