[?]mrnal of the P-NG

Te Final Extra?

[?]mrnal of the P-NG Agriculture Dept.

' must have come down on a Very Slow Boat from China be cause the copy of the Papua '■ New Guinea Agricultural Journal ich we received in January, 1956, iated January, 1955. a the past we have received Fiji’s icultural Gazette months after date shown on it—but it has er been a year behind, so it seems t P-NG has established some ; of a record in this respect.

Ithough the articles in the issue scarcely be regarded as “hot r s,” they are interesting; they ild be even more interesting if / covered events later than 1954, ch they do not. [r. G. S. Dun, Senior Entom ist for the P-NG Department, contributed a lot of informa on the insect pests of the lomic crops of the Territory— irtunately, his information, too, >hes in 1954, at the time when

coconut leafminer—usually

tvn as Promecotheca —had re >d coconut production on Lind afen Plantation on the south t of New Britain to about 75 cent, of normal. The reader is irally interested to know what )ened at Lindenhafen after mid , but at this rate of progress have to wait until January, 1957, nd out. can be argued, of course, that [entitle article has an undatable e. Nonetheless, a great deal can )en to agriculture—on both the omic and scientific fronts—in years. It is assumed that the ary purpose of the Journal is to t producers, and that it should ae regarded as a record of pure irch. Therefore, it would surely I greater value if it were more 3-date.