New Industry For Papua
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A Use For Mangrove Swamps
i BORNEO company has received ap \. proval from the Commonwealth Government to start a “eutch reducing factory at Kikori, in the Delta ivision of Papua.
Cutch is extracted from the bark of [angrove trees in which the area sounds; it is used in dyeing and tanning ad is in demand in USA.
It is expected that the factory will reduce about 3,000 tons of cutch annually ad that 2,000 local natives will engage m le industry.
Executives of the Borneo company made survey of the Kikori area in October bvember and were impressed with the ossibilities of developing the industry.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Pocock with their vo daughters are spending a short holi ay in Fiji to visit Mrs. Pocock’s mother [rs. McKenzie of Nagasau Estate, aveuni.