Tea Planting In New
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Guinea
Letter to the Editor QN this subject of the establishment of V ' / the tea planting industry in New Guinea I think that it should be made very clear that nothing whatever can be done in that direction unless the Ad ministration is prepared to admit, as indentured labourers, a sufficient number of trained tea pickers from Ceylon or Java.
Tea picking is a skilled job—unskilled tea pickers could ruin the product. Un trained New Guinea natives would be quite useless. No doubt they could be trained in time—but if the industry is to be established in New Guinea, Asiatic tea pickers will have to be introduced, for a time at least.
I am, etc.,
Planter.
Sydney, February 5, 1936.
Mr. W. H. Gordon, superintendent and director of Quartz Mountain (Papua) Limited, departed from Sydney in Janu ary for Samarai en route to Misima Island to inspect the company’s plant and workings on the south side of Misima.