Equals W. African "
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arkham V. Cocoa Equals W. African "
lALL shipments of cocoa beans from the Markham Valley, New Guinea, are now being received Macßobertson (Aust.) Ltd. he company’s chemists say that beans are equal in quality to best from West Africa. This in If is an advance —in the past,
some Australian chocolate manu facturers have insisted that cocoa from the Territory is generally in ferior to the West African product.
Macßobertsons has spent about £60,000 on its cocoa plantation in the Markham Valley which it bought about 18 months ago. About 3,000 trees that were planted before the war are producing; and since the purchase a further 130 acres of cocoa have been planted. Ultimately 600 acres will be planted to cocoa.
IT A tour of inspection of French Colonial Gendarmerie posts brought General Cases back to his birth place—Noumea—in February. He is the son of a gendarme and was born at Anse Vata, Noumea. The General travelled by Tahitien.