N.G. Agriculture
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IF the “New Guinea Agricultural Ga zette” can maintain the standard set by the issue of January, 1938, it should be of increasing assistance to New Guinea planters, and of interest to plant ers in the South Seas generally. The following were some of the articles in January:— “An Agricultural Survey of the Mark ham Valley”, by Colin Marr.
“Biological Control of Insects”, by B, A. O’Connor, “Charcoal Manufacture from Coconut Shell”.
“What to Grow in the Islands—How the N.G. Department of Agriculture is Experimenting to Assist Planters”, by the Director of Agriculture.
“Copra Drying and Ceylon Driers”.
There are also several highly techni cal articles.
Mrs. Robert Parer, of Wewak, arrived in Sydney in April from New Guinea, with her nine-months-old twins, Carolin and Robert. She was on her way to Melbourne to attend the wedding of her brother.
Miss Ida Kent, of the New Guinea Mission staff in Papua, who has been assisting the organising secretary of the Australian Board of Missions in Queens land for a time, will return to Taupota, Papua, at the end of April.