New Guinea Plantation
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For Sale
THE Curator of Intestate Estates in Port Moresby is calling tenders for the purchase of Kokola and Kokola Extended plantations in Namatanai. New Ireland (about 45 miles from Rabaul).
They formerly belonged to the late Mrs.
E. B. Hertz.
There are about 1,500 acres on the two plantations which are held on a 104-year lease, of which 80 or 90 years are yet to run.
There are 31,500 coconuts over 10 years of age and 100 cocoa trees but there are now, apparently, no dwellings or build ings and little, if anything, has been done
to the place since the evacuation, in 1942.
The War Damage Commission, however, has assessed an amount of £715 towards cost of clearing the place of secondarv growth—About one-third of it is so affected.
It is estimated that production would be about 270 tons of copra per year and that, at present, sufficient nuts to make 20 tons of copra are on the ground.
Labour, it is stated, should be avaialble from near-by villages.
There is a river running through the property and numerous creeks. It has a sea frontage but a bad anchorage during the north-west season.
Tenders close on September 29, 1948, at Port Moresby.
Two Fijian masters of inter-island vessels were recently fined in Suva for carrying more passengers than legally permitted. Suva Water Police have started a campaign against overloading of small ships.