Tea In N. Guinea?
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A Plan For Producing
AFTER spending six weeks in New Guinea, examining tea growing possibilities for the Minister for Territories, Australia, Mr. G. K. Newton told newspaper reporters that small quantities of tea were being grown now in New Guinea Highlands; that there were large areas of flat land suitable for
plantations; and that commercial tea-growing there was a definite possibility. Mr. Newton has been a tea-grower in Ceylon for 35 years.
There is nothing new in his an nouncement. It is common know ledge that tea can be grown well in New Guinea. What those in terested want to know is: (a) Is it intended to encourage Europeans to grow tea in NG? (b) If so, where and when and how is the land to be made available? (c) As tea must be produced by a cheap and highly trained labour force, where is the trained labour force to come from?
Mr. and Mrs. J. Kerrigan, and family, of Suva, returned home in February after leave in New Zea land.