Useful New Book

On Cocoa Culture

VALUABLE reference book on [cocoa culture, written by Mr. D. t Urquhart, has been published Longmans Green and Co. (price i sterling.) he 230-page book deals with my, climate, soils, establishment [ maintenance of plantations, Native propagation, planting and ir-care, preparation of the crop [marketing, pests and diseases, les and grading, cocoa research, Id production and consumption.

It contains ten colour and 97 black and white plates.

Mr. Urquhart has made cocoa and coffee surveys of South Pacific areas under the auspices of the South Pacific Commission in recent years.

Reports on these surveys have been published by the Commission. t A new Mormon chapel is being built at Avatiu, Rarotonga. Mem bers of the LMS have helped to erect the building, in return for as sistance received last year from the Mormon community when the LMS restored their meeting house at Muri.

tl Miss Nancy Kemp, of Sydney, has gone to Port Moresby to take up her appointment as first Australian Girl Guides’ trainer to Papua-New Guinea.

H Mr. C. B. Mead, Agricultural Officer, BSIP, after leave in New Zealand, will attend a course at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad before re turning to Honiara.