Sugar-Growing in N. Guinea?
p. 68 · Read in the full issue
THE registration in Sydney, in Decem ber, of Mandated New Guinea Sugar Plantations Pty., Ltd., with a Capital of 1,200 shares of £5 each, is rioted. The moving spirit behind the piah f ' appears to be Mr. Leonard C. Horton.
There is nothing of special r interest about the registration, except the curious fact that apparently it is proposed to grow sugar in New Guinea. Most people are under the impression, since the, fll fated Sangara effort in Papua, that Vtlie Commonwealth Government , will t not permit an attempt to establish the sugar industry in Papua or New Guinea, on the ground that the rationalisation of the sugar industry throughout the Empire is already completely provided for, Mr. W. Buddie, of the Education De partment, Western Samoa, made a visit to New Zealand during the Christmas holidays. .
Mr. R. J. Fletcher, author of “Isles of Illusion”, is now a schoolmaster in a country school in Cornwall, England.
Mr. A. Q. McGowan, well-known Suva business man, arrived in New Zealand froffi Fiji early in December on a health recruiting trip.