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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1956Vol. XXVI, No.8

Urquhart Handbook

p. 89 · Read in the full issue

On Cocoa

COCOA planters in the South Pacific will be interested to know that Mr. Urquhart has compiled a handbook entitled Cocoa.

This cocoa-expert visited New SS e 4 on l a ’ N w Hebride s, Western and Eastern Samoa, Fiji and Dutch New Guinea for the South Pacific Commission in 1952. Earlier he had

visited Papua-New Guinea and the Solomons for Cadbury’s, Cocoa is a comprehensive survey of “one of the world’s most favoured crops,” and carries an extensive in dex and a wealth of illustrations.

It is the latest of a series on tropical agriculture being published by Longmans, Green & Co.

H The Rev. C. L. Mountford, new rector of Honiara, BSIP. with Mrs.

Mountford, arrived in the Protec torate on December 22.