Papuan Planters’
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Association
From Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, October 16.
A PLANTERS’ Association has recently been formed in Papua to promote and protect the interests of the planters throughout the Territory.
It is understood that all party and local politics (except so far as they affect plant ing interests) are to be rigidly excluded.
The association has been formed solely for the purpose of furthering the planting in terests, and particular stress has been laid down that the association should be com posed only of members actively engaged in planting.
The hon. secretaries, Messrs. G. A. Lou don and R. Walshe advise that many planters have applied for membership in the Central Division and it is anticipated that a considerable number of applications will arrive shortly from the East—a busy centre of plantations.
Miss Mary Edwards, a well-known Australian artist, who spent some time in French Oceania several years ago, is at present painting the portrait of Crown Prince George Taufa’ahau, of Tonga, in her studio at Woollahra.