Raise Pigs Instead of Copra

POINTING to the small amount left for the copra-grower, after shipping charges and the deductions of middle men have been taken from the world market price, a well-known planter of Fiji, Mr. Percy W. McConnell, puts for ward the interesting suggestion that plantation owners in Fiji should give serious attention to the raising of pigs and the production of bacon in co-opera tive factories.

He says that if New Zealand can do so well with this industry they should do equally well if not better in Fiji where the natural advantages in favour of pig raising are greater than they are in New Zealand. He points out that Fiji’s rich tropical lands will produce a wide variety of first-class fattening foods, in addition to coconuts, and that with the labour

available pig-raising should be definitely a first-class business proposition. He quotes figures to show that the cost of labour and food production would be much less in Fiji than in New Zealand.

Mrs. Irwin, wife of Dr. G. A. Irwin, of the Government Hospital, Apia, arrived m New Zealand from Apia by the De cember “Matua”.

Mr. and Mrs. A. TattersaU, of Apia, Western Samoa, recently arrived in New Zealand by the “Matua”, on several months’ vacation.

Rev. O. J. Brady, incumbent of All Saints’ Anglican Church, Geelong, Vic toria. has volunteered to the Bishop of New Guinea (Rt. Rev. P. N. W. Strong) for service as a missionary in Papua.