Practical Tropical
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Agriculture
AS usual, the last issue of the New Guinea Agricultural Gazette con tains a large number of articles of unusual technical value.
The Department’s entomologist, Mr.
John L. Froggatt, contributes articles on “Measures for Control of Coconut Tree Hopper” and “Weevil Pests of Cocoa”.
The artificial control of insect pests is dealt with in an article by Mr. B. A.
O’Connor; while Mr. G. E. Bliss has an interesting contribution on “Local Tim bers for Plantation Building”, in the course of which he describes the char acter of the rapidly expanding timber trade in New Guinea. Mr. R. E. P.
Dwyer, the Department’s economic bot anist has, as usual, a valuable contri bution in “Coconut Improvement by Seed Selection and Plant Breeding”.
If one may judge from the practical and valuable character of the contribu tions in the Department’s magazine, one would say that the Agricultural Depart ment of the New Guinea Administra tion is one of the most useful organisa tions of the kind in the Pacific.
Mr. Hector Wales and Mrs. Lily Hun ter were married at Wau early in No vember by the district officer, Mr. E.
Taylor. Mr. Russell Smith was grooms man. Mr. Wales is one of the best known “old hands” of the Morobe goldfield.
Mrs. F. Stewart, proprietress of the Bulolo Hotel, Wau, arrived in Sydney by the “Bulolo” in November. She brought with her her little daughter Flora, who is to attend school in Australia.