Youngest Planter
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lan Munro, 17, Runs His Own Small Plantation
TAN MUNRO, aged 17, is nominated by -*■ his uncle (Mr. Guy Lowe, of Iboki plantation. New Britain) as the youngest planter in New Guinea. lan is lessee of the Talasea Government Station plantation of 19 hectares, from which he produces two tons of copra per
month. He took over the little plantation in November, 1936, with eight indentured labourers, and when his five-years’ lease expires, he hopes to have saved enough money to start him off on a bigger urea. lan Munro, when he took over last November, erected his own smoke-drier, to take 24 bags of green nuts; and he also built his labour houses, and his own small hut —which has an old 400-gallon tank as a stove recess.
lan Munro on his plantation, Talasea, New Britain.