New Guinea Crops
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IATR. D. HORE-LACY, a New Guinea planter, who recently arrived in Syd ney from Rabaul by the Neptuna, told the “Sydney Morning Herald” that planters in New Guinea had turned to the cultivation of crops, notably cocoa and tobacco, owing to the slump in copra.
Mr. Hore-Lacy said that cocoa beans grown in New Guinea found a ready market in Sydney. Efforts to produce tobacco leaf suitable for cigar and pipe tobacco had also proved successful.
An experimental tobacco crop produced on his plantation at Talasea, 180 miles west of Rabaul, last year, had been fol lowed by the erection of a factory. With additional machinery, which he intended to purchase in Sydney, the output next year would be considerably increased.