Coffee Expert in New Guinea
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New Guinea
PROFESSOR Y. Baron Goto, De partment of Agriculture, Uni versity of Hawaii, Director Agri cultural Extension Service of the University and of the United States Department of Agriculture and also Director International Co-operation Centre of Hawaii, and world expert on coffee, arrived in Sydney by air on January 29. He left the next day for New Guinea, going straight through to Goroka, Eastern High lands, where he will spend most of his three weeks in the Territory.
He was accompanied from Sydney by Mr. Eric Colyer, son of Mr. R. A.
Colyer, who met Professor Goto dur ing a visit to Hawaii and who was instrumental in having his .visit to New Guinea arranged.
The cost of Professor Goto’s visit is being financed by the Bank of New South Wales, the Common wealth Bank, Colyer Watson (NG) Ltd., Robert Bunting, and the Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association of Goroka.
Excellent Arabica coffee has been produced at Wau, New Guinea, since before the war; and in the last 5 or 6 years a great deal of coffee planting has been undertaken in the Highlands of New Guinea. How ever, planters have had no expert
advice, and what they know they have had to find out for them selves.