Kurukuru Grass

COMMENT has been caused by official inquiries in Australia and in Papua, concerning British Australian Fibre Co., Ltd., Fibres, Ltd., and Common wealth Hemp Corporation, Ltd.—all ap parently connected with British and Aus tralian Paper and Pulp Co., Ltd. The latter was registered in April, 1936, in Canberra, with a nominal capital of £3,000,000, and one of its objects was to exploit the Kurukuru (or kunai) grass ot Papua and New Guinea. Little has been done there but the companies still hold large tracts of grass land in Papua.