Agricultural Gazette
p. 129 · Read in the full issue
from P-NG
An old friend in a new guise is No. 1, Vol. 8 of the Papua and New Guinea Agricultural Gazette. It follows on where the New Guinea Agricultural Gazette left off about 11 years ago, at the outbreak of the Pacific war.
It is planned to have four issues a year; the yearly subscription will be 6/- per annum or 1/6 per copy but overseas publications of a similar nature are sought on an exchange basis.
The first issue (July, 1953) con tains numerous articles which will be of interest to planters. One describing the propagation of cocoa from green-wood cuttings should be of particular interest to cocoa growers, many of whom, in the Territory, still insist that cocoa can only be propagated from seed.
Other articles cover livestock, tea growing, diseases of coconuts and plantation hygiene as a counter to the attacks of rhinoceros beetle, etc.
The Gazette is edited and printed at Port Moresby. ff Mr. Jaipal Das, who died at Tavua, Fiji, on August 10, was believed by his family to be 115 years old. He was born in Basti, India, and went to Fiji in the early indenture days.