Cocoa Industry For

New Guinea

ONE of the most thorough jobs of work ever done in an Islands Department of Agriculture has been carried out by Mr. E.

C. D. Green, the New Guinea agricultural officer who was sent, for a term, to the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, in TrinidaJ, West Indies.

Mr. Green made a special study of the industry of cocoa-production, and the result of his researches is seen in a pam phlet just issued by the Department of Agriculture, New Guinea, entitled “Possi bility of Developing an Economic Cocoa Industry in New Guinea, after a study of the industry in Trinidad, and a suggested policy for that development.” Into this compilation Mr. Green has put the result of his valuable researches, his actual ex perience and much careful thought. The possibility of successful cocoa-production in New Guinea is examined from every angle: and the pamphlet will be invaluable to the planters who are considering this particular crop.

Part IV. of the Pamphlet carries these sub-headings:—“Method of establishment: selection of land; clearing the forest; drainage; preparation of land; layout of estate; variety to plant; planting distance; wind breaks: methods of planting; estate management; pruning: picking and break ing: fermentation: drying and curing; grading and inspection.”

Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Came arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, by the Monterey, from Fiji, on September 6. Mr. Came is manager of Messrs. Morris, Hedstrom, Ltd., at Ba.