Papuan Sugar Plans Fade
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CERTAIN interests which threatened for a time, a year or two ago, to develop the sugar-growing industry in Eastern Papua, seem to have lost all interest in the proposition.
A recent visitor from that part of the Territory informed us that the leases taken by Sugarlands Ltd. are reported to have gone back to the Crown.
The company known as Tropicane Ltd. is understood to be in process of reorgan isation, and it is reported that Mr. W.
Jack, accountant, of 499 Pitt Street, Sydney, has taken over the affairs of the company.
Dr. and Mrs. Van Der Borch left Syd ney by the November Macdhui for Wau, New Guinea, where the doctor will take charge of the hospital. Dr. Van Der Borch formerly was medical officer at Mt. Isa, Queensland.