Where Mangoes Are Street

Refuse!

AN New Guinea planter, Mr, George Hanson, formerly of Nama tanai, has been kicking his heels restlessly in Cairns for some weeks, waiting for something to happen. His keen sense of observation has not atrophied in the war years, for this is what he writes:— I suppose you haven’t a spare aero plane you could let me use for awhile?

I could make money for both of us.

I have seen literally thousands of man goes lying around the streets of Cairns, and rotting, and creating a nuisance. We have picked up many of them —their flavour is wonderful. I have seen women and children digging trenches beside the roads, just to get rid of the nuisance created by this otherwise delicious, but

now rotting fruit. Even then the smell of decay was in the air.

And yet those mangoes could be sold in Sydney for Bd. each. One planeload of mangoes to Sydney per day during the season would almost make a fortune!

Mr. H. W. Gray, who has been man ager of Burns Philp (SS) Co., Ltd., at Lautoka, Fiji, since 1932, has now been transferred to an associate company in Australia. Recently he arrived in Syd nev with his family on leave prior to taking up his new position. His place in Lautoka will be taken by Mr. J. A.

Moore, who was formerly well-known as manager of the Port Moresby branch of the parent company. Mr. Moore was ac countant of the Pacific Territories Asso ciation in Sydney until last year, when ho went to Western Samoa to manage BP (SS) Co.’s branch there.