Quinine
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Japanese To Produce
From Our Own Correspondent
Honolulu, Nov. 14.
BY degrees, Holland’s virtual monopoly of world quinine production is being threatened. Experiments are well ad vanced in Australian New Guinea: and, now, Japanese interests have secured a concession from the Ecuadorian Govern ment (South America) for the planting of 20,000 cinchona trees (from the bark of which quinine is made).
The trees will be planted in 500 acres of unoccupied Government land. Stock is being imported direct from Japan.
A concession stipulation says that the Japanese must establish a laboratory and other facilities for the production in Ecuador of the quinine and other chemi cal by-products.
Wau (New Guinea) has joined in the Empire-wide Red Cross movement, and a local branch is in full swing, with Dr.
N. McKenna, lecturer; Mr. R. A. Laws, supervisor; Mrs. D. Wetherall, secretary; and Mrs. F. S. Stewart and Major E. B.
Ayris, committee. ,