NZ As Coffee Producer?
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HPHE post-war shortage of almost all commodities has inspired many agricultural experiments. An executive of one of the largest tea and coffee importers in Auckland NZ, has recently announced that he is growing coffee at Keri Keri on North Auckland Peninsula.
He brought some seeds back from Samoa 2i years ago. They were planted in Auckland, germinated, and some of the plants were removed to Keri Keri. One of these plants has now flowered and shows signs of bearing a crop this year.
One coffee bush does not, of course, make a plantation—or a suc
cessful commercial enterprise, but it is pointed out that the climate of North Auckland Peninsula is mild and moist and not a great deal colder than Mangaia or Rapa Is lands where excellent coffee can be grown.
Mr. Bert Covit, who has been a resident of Tahiti for some time, passed through Australia in Septem ber, bound for Manila, where he proposes to resume the work of film production. Mr. Covit, a journalist and film man, was in the Philippines when the Japs invaded, and so be came an inmate of a prison camp there for four years.