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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 April 1939Vol. IX, No. 9

Steamships Trading Co. Buys

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Papua's Oldest P!antation

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, Apr. 2.

STEAMSHIPS Trading Company, Ltd., has bought Doini coconut plantation, near Samarai, Eastern Papua. Doini was the property of the late A. H. Bunt ing and the Hon. J. G. Nelsson jointly, and is the oldest plantation in the Ter ritory. It is the third large copra planta tion bought by the Company within re cent years.

Mr. Roderick R. McLennan has resign ed from the New Guinea Public Service.