For Papua
p. 134 · Read in the full issue
New Cutch Industry
A . ~, f DDRESSING shareholders of Islands Trading Co. in Lon don, Mr. Roger Dolbey last year gave some details of what this Company has done and is planning to do in Papua.
The Company manufactures and sells cutch (a tanning material) from mangrove bark. It gets cutch from Brunei and Selalang, in Borneo, where it also has rubber Interests.
Mangrove bark supplies have been exhausted in Brunei, and so the Brunei plant is being transferred to the south coast of Papua, to an
associated company “who are now engaged in establishing a factory and plant in what is expected will be a very productive country.
“The world market for cutch is no t a simple one. Competition in the form of quebracho and wattle i s ver y strong. We chiefly rely upon the value of our extract in its pre servation of fishing nets, where it i s outstanding.”
Police Inspector and Mrs. Fred Towner of Rabaul, New Guinea, recently left the Territory on six months’ leave in the UK and Europe. While they are away their daughter, Elizabeth, will remain at school in Brisbane.