Reviving Guano
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Workings
On Walpole
TRAVELLERS from New Cale donia in January reported that there was a move to revive the export of guano from French Wal pole Island. The well-known Noumea firm, N. Johnson & Co., and other interests, have acquired the vessel Colorado del Mar (now renamed Havannah ) from Captain E. Savoie, and might put her into the guano trade.
Several years ago Captain Savoie investigated the possibility of ex porting guano from Walpole to New Zealand, where most of Walpole guano went until the trade lapsed in the 1930’5. The deposits were then being exploited by the Austral Guano Co. Ltd., whose head office was in Melbourne.
Some of their machinery and equipment remained on Walpole after operations ceased —and pos sibly still remains there. A sub stantial quantity of guano remained “at grass.”
Two years ago, Seychelles guano from the Indian Ocean, of higher phosphatic content, could be landed in New Zealand at a figure sub-