N. Guinea Highlands
p. 41 · Read in the full issue
Passion Fruit Culture On
Pt. Moresby, Dec. 8
IT is reported from, the Highlands that Captain Bobby Gibbes (of Gibbes Air ways) on his property near Mt Hagen, is employing quite a large line of natives in planting out and trellising his passion fruit vines. Captain Gibbes’ plan envisages a passion fruit area of about 500 acres. He emphasises, how ever, that so far the venture is entirely experimental.
A Sydney firm, acting on behalf of an American Company, is making plans to import a quick-freeze apparatus; and there is a possibility that this unit can be used to “snap-freeze” the passion fruit pulp in a place like the New Guinea High lands, whence it could be flown frozen to Madang, for shipment to Australia and possibly to the United States as re frigerated cargo.
Mrs. Paul Mason, of Inus Plantation, Bougainville, New Guinea, gave birth to a son in Sydney, on January 5; but, al though both mother and child seemed in perfect health, the child was still-born.
Mrs. Mason plans to return home in February.