Visits Sydney.
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N.G. Director of Agriculture Visits Sydney.
/'ANE of the best known men in New w Guinea, Hon. George H. Murray, M.L.C., Director of Agriculture, is at pre sent in Sydney, on leave. Mr. Murray, who is a recognised expert on tropical agriculture, usually spends his furlough gathering scientific information in the Dutch East Indies or some other similar territory, but on this occasion he has come to Australia for a leisurely holiday.
Son of Rev. J. D. Murray, a pioneer Presbyterian missionary in New Hebrides, he went to the condominium as a child, and practically his whole life, first as a planter and later as a public servant, has been spent in the Pacific. Mr. Murray went to Papua in 1910 on the staff of Papuan Industries Ltd., subsequently taking charge of the co.’s operations there.
In 1916' he joined the Papuan Public Service at the request of Sir Hubert Murray. At first, he was in charge of the Armed Constabulary in the Delta Division, but later was made Resident Magistrate of the Gulf Division. In 1920 he was ap pointed Controller of Native Plantations, a post that gave him scope for his life inter est in entomology. In 1928, he accepted an appointment as Director of Agriculture in New Guinea.