Beatrice Grimshaw’S
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Tobacco Plantation
Sold
From Our Own Correspondent.
PT. MORESBY, August 10.
The country home of Miss Beatrice Grimshaw, the well-known South Seas novelist, on the Laloki River (15 miles outside Port Moresby) has been sold to the Hon. W. M. Strong, Chief Medical Officer of the Territory. Miss Grimshaw with her brother (Mr. Ramsay Grimshaw) had been experimenting with tobacco on the plantation for some time. It is under stood that the cultivation of tobacco will be continued by Dr. Strong, under the management of Mr. Jekinson, a tobacco expert from Queensland.
Miss Grimshaw is leaving Papua by the August Montoro for an extended tour of America and Europe. She will be absent from the Territory for a year or two, but will return to Port Moresby, where she has lived for many years since her arrival in Papua in 1907.
Receipts for customs revenue at Port Moresby, Papua, amounted to £1,785/12/3 for the month of July. The total was made up of: Import duties, £1,440/11/11; primage duties, £331/13/9; export duties. £1/17/8; shipping and other fees, £11/8/11.