Cook Is. Director of Agriculture

From Our Own Correspondent.

RAROTONGA, October 7.

PLANTERS and others concerned with A the Cook Islands’ fruit-trade should be satisfied with the recent appointment of Mr. W. T. Goodwin to the post of Director of Agriculture. Mr. Goodwin, who has been seconded from the N.Z.

Department of Agriculture for a three year term, was formerly Assistant Direc tor of Horticulture.

With experience gathered in and around Hobart and the famous fruit-growing Huon Valley, it is confidently expected that the new Director’s broom will sweep off some of the cobwebs which have over grown the Rarotongan fruit industry. It is the usual irony of fate that his arrival should coincide with an unprecedented

low level in local produce prices and a corresponding apathy among growers.

Thoroughly conversant with every branch of his profession, Mr. Goodwin visited South America, Canada and Great Britain in 1928, making a close study of marketing conditions on behalf of the N.Z. Fruit Board. There was a grim smile at the corners of his mouth when questioned about the future prospects of C.I. fruit. “The day of the old ‘bush’ orange is definitely over,” he said, “I can’t tell exactly what will replace it, but I do know that.”

Mr. William Brian Molloy, barrister-at law, of Sydney, N.S.W., has been admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor in the Central Court of Papua. It is Mr.

Molloy’s intention to practise as a bar rister and solicitor in Port Moresby.