New Crop For N.G.?
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rE New Guinea Agricultural Depart ment likes experimenting with pos sibly profitable new crops, on its farm on the Central New Guinea high lands (called “a second Kenya”). There fore, it may be interested in this from “Melbourne Herald”: — “Dr. Bartley’s relations at Molo, Kenya Colony, 8,500 feet up, grow pyre thrum daisies to make insecticide, and they get up to £l4O a ton for the flowers, with the United States taking 8,500 tons a year. It takes a lot to kill those gol-durned flies!”
Miss Marcia White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. White, of Suva, Fiji, was married to Mr. Frank M. Gray, formerly of Adelaide, S.A., at the Suva Holy Trin ity Pro-Cathedral on April 20.