Future Planting in New
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Guinea Hon. G. Murray's Emphatic Opinion
SOME time ago, in an article in the “Pacific Islands Monthly”, the chairman of the recent committee on the proposed amalgamation of the territories Mr. F. W. Eggleston, made the surprising statement that New Guinea has no great potential riches and is an exceedingly poor country, and that the amount of good agricultural land is exceedingly limited.
It is interesting to note that when Mr.
George Murray, director of agriculture in New Guinea, went before the Native Labour Commission, in January, to give evidence relating to native labour, one of the members of the Commission dir ected Mr. Murray’s attention to the state ment made by Mr. Eggleston.
Mr. Murray gave Mr. Eggleston a direct contradiction. He said that there is an abundance of agricultural land available in New Guinea and that “this territory is a rich agricultural country”.