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Aid for N.I. Passion Fruit Industry.
From a Special Correspondent.
Norfolk Is., Feb. 2.
TO a specially convened meeting of passion fruitgrowers in January, the Administrator (Sir Charles Rosen thal) said the Federal Government had offered to assist financially in the pulp ing of passion fruit to the extent of £6,000. It is anticipated that 220 tons of pulp will be made by the factory. Grow ers are to receive Id. per lb. on delivery of fruit and the balance, up to 2d. per lb., when the pulp is sold.