Agriculture in New Guinea
p. 77 · Read in the full issue
AT Science House, Sydney, on April 12, Mr. George H. Murray, Director of Agriculture in New Guinea, delivered an extremely interesting lecture on “Agricul ture in the Mandated Territory” to mem bers of the newly-formed New South Wales Branch of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science.
Mr. Murray dealt with cover crops, copra inspection and driers, pests and diseases, and market and transport difficulties in New Guinea. He told of the efforts of the Department of Agriculture to ccmbat the Sexava pest—a long-horned tree hopper, which attacks coconut palms and strips them of foliage. He spoke also of the various crops that are now being culti vated in the Mandated Territory, and of several new crops which the Agriculture Department is endeavouring to introduce in the territory.
A comprehensive report of Mr. Murray’s lecture will appear in next issue of the “Pacific Islands Monthly.”