Just Nuts

These strange objects are not members of the New Britain duk-duk society but stands of peanuts set out to mature in the fields where they were grown on part of the Common at Wau, New Guinea. If they were not set to mature thus their keeping properties would be impaired and flavour might not be all it should be.

Wau Common was set aside as a reserve

in the early days of the Morobe Goldfield, but little use was made of it for many years until Messrs. White and Baker got permission to use it for peanut and vege table farming. The possibilities of this wasteland have now been proved and it shortly will be cut up into a number of agricultural blocks.