New Rubber in Dutch New
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Guinea
ri\HE Netherlands Indies Government is X making rapid progress with its ex perimental plantings of rubber in New Guinea. An area of 1,000 hectares in the region of Manokwari, on the coast of Yellow Finch Bay, has been cleared and almost entirely planted to rubber, with oil palms and derris root as catch crops.
The region is expected to enter pro duction after 1944. Labour has been drawn chiefly from the Papoea popu lation; in addition, contract coolies will
be brought over from Java. Plans for this year will concentrate on improving housing for the coolies and transpor tlon i facihties.—“Far Eastern Survey”, ividy, iyq:i.
D - Crawley, bandmaster in charge of the Rabaul Police Band, arrived in Australia last month from New Guinea, on leave.
Mr. J. Wilson, who recently arrived in Samoa from New Zealand with his wife and young son, has replaced Mr. E.
Murphy as officer-in-charge of the Pub lic Works Department at Apia.