Territory
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Self-Sufficient
In Rice
Dutch Plans for N[?] Territory
A RICE-GROWING project oi large scale has been laund in Dutch New Guinea, Koembe.
Construction has been started! an 8-mile road in from the co< A cargo of 500 tons of machine narrow-gauge railway equipmt etc., was recently landed for job.
About £AS million is being sp on the project and the first n from a 1,000-acre “pilot are should be harvested by the end 1955. The area has had to be p tected by low dykes from exo flooding from mountain strea and frpm the sea.
In view of the labour shorts extensive mechanisation is planL for the industry, which, it is hop will make Dutch New Guinea co pletely independent of outside i requirements.
At present DNG rice is impon from Thailand. t Indonesian troops have lam at New Guinea beaches on occasions, but these infiltrate have been quickly mopped up the Netherlands authorities. Offic: at The Hague have described “sheer propaganda” reports t!
Indonesian forces are planning large-scale invasion of Dutch M Guinea.