Tonga is Now Interested
p. 51 · Read in the full issue
In Vanilla
THE possibility of establishing a vanilla industry in Tonga and the problems associated with the growing thereof have been in vestigated in French Oceania by the Tonga Director of Agriculture, Mr. W. Straatmans, and two mem bers of his staff.
The group, together with Prince Tungi, were to have returned home via Apia and Pago Pago in the Tongan Government vessel Hifofua
late February or early March, Probably Tonga’s interest in vanilla originated with Prince Tungi, who has been anxious that Tonga should not become a one-crop country. French Oceania is the only Pacific territory where vanilla is grown extensively. It requires considerably tedious attention as the flowers have to be pollinated by hand.
U Mr. H. R. J. Lewis, recently appointed Crown Counsel. Fiji, arrived in Suva in January.