New Crops Of T.N.G.
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Botanist to Study Other Products
PRIOR to taking up duties as economic botanist in the Department of Agriculture, New Guinea, Mr. R. E. P. Dwyer.
B.Sc.Ag., left Sydney by the Nieuw Hol land, on June 25, for a tour of the Dutch East Indies to engage in research work in tropical agriculture.
In the East he will investigate the pos sibilities of coffee, cocoa, kapok, tea, to bacco, and rubber, as alternative crops for the Mandated Territory. By crossbreed ing and inter-pollination of these crops, Mr. Dwyer hopes to develop varieties to suit New Guinea conditions. This work will be carried on at Rabaul under the supervision of Mr. George H. Murray (Di rector of Agriculture). Detailed investiga tions will be undertaken also at the Kera vat demonstration plantation in New Britain.