Australian Publicity

for Wau Show

ONE of the largest agricultural newspapers in Australia— The Land, of Sydney— had a special representative at the Agricutural Show at Wau, New Guiena, and farmers in Australia have sub sequently been able to learn some thing about their counterparts in that part of the Territory.

Wau’s show was opened by the Administrator of P-NG, Brigadier D. M. Cleland, on October 30. Five special planes brought visitors from Port Moresby and Lae and there was a large range of exhibits ranging

from coffee and vegetables to orchids.

In the same issue of The Land the enterprise of the two farming Hurrell brothers was described. Mi- Frank Hurrell supplies Wau with its daily bottled milk from his Jersey herd of 100. Vegetables grown by Mr. Lloyd Hurrell are delivered with his brother’s milk at a flat lOd per lb. Mr. Frank Hurrell was formerly an officer of the NSW De partment of Agriculture on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. Mr Lloyd Hurrell was Assistant District Officer at Wau until a couple of years ago, when he left the service to take up farming and coffee plant ing.