Cocoa Scheme
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Set-Back to BSIP Cocoa Scheme
rE Kolombangara Cocoa Scheme, under which the BSIP Government in partnership with Lever’s Pacific Plantations, hoped to embark on a cocoa growing project, has met with an early set-back and som?8 change of plans has had to be made.
The change is due mainly to the discovery that soils on the proposed site when tested scientifically were unsatisfactory for cocoa.
The Government and the com pany will now proceed indepen dently to put in a series of trial plots of cocoa in different parts of the Protectorate and information obtained from these trials will be pooled.
Whether a major joint scheme is proceeded with will be influenced by the results of these trials.
If Eliuda Laen a native Methodist missionary of New Britain, who was trained at the George Brown College and since has worked in New Britain and the Duke of York Islands, is at present doing Methodist deputation work in Vic toria. He is described as “a fully trained pastor-teacher, who speaks English well.”