In Papua
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Produce By Air
Coffee Planter’s Experiment In Papua
From Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, March 11.
MR. G. A. LOUDON, the well-known planter of Eilogo, endeavoured recently to overcome transport difficulties with his produce by constructing a landing ground for Guinea Airways Ltd. near his coffee estate in the hills behind Port Moresby.
Unfortunately, on inspection, the chosen site proved impracticable for safe landings, and Mr. Loudon’s project had to be aban doned for the time being until either the site be improved or another area chosen in a more suitable quarter.
At first sight, this idea of transport of plantation produce by air may seem im possible. But in Papua and New Guinea the goldfields transport service justifies and pays for the organisation of aerial transport in the two territories. If suf ficient number of small landing grounds, each a produce depot for nearby planta tions, were constructed in isolated places and the freight charges brought within a reasonable figure, then a new era might be opened for the out-of-the-way planter, who now experiences considerable trouble in getting his produce to the main ship ping centres.