Norfolk Island Notes

From Our Own Correspondent January 23.

HHIS year’s bean-seed crop is ex- L pected to be a good one with excellent financial returns to le growers.

The crop was harvested under leal conditions: germination tests ndertaken in the Government fu- Ligation testing sheds are promis ig- (Ed. Note: An almost unlimited mount of Norfolk Island bean seed )uld be sold in Australia where jgetable growers are paying about 15 per bushel —three times the rice they paid a few years ago— hen they can get it.) Lovely summer weather has been tperienced of late and is appre ated by tourists from New Zea .nd. NZ National Airways has .nded seven plane loads of New ealand visitors here since Christ tas.

The tourist trade now justifies le use of larger aircraft from NZ. ne Skymaster would carry as (any passengers as the three akotas which NZNAC sent over i a recent Sunday.

One of the Island’s great needs a sawmill which would serve the ablic the year round. At present lere is a great demand for modern omes, with very little offering in le way of local timber. Sawmills ere are treated as a side-line by leir operators and of all the com ments necessary for building a ouse, timber is the most difficult ) get.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tattle, old ;sidents of the Island recently re irned after an 18-months’ tour I the United Kingdom and urope.

Pastor N. A. Ferris, well known s a SDA missionary in Tonga, has Dne to Pitcairn Island for I months to relieve Mr. and Mrs. . P. Ward who are on leave in Aus 'alia.