No Pineapple

Cannery for Lae

\HE company that was formed to . grow and can pineapples in Lae, New Guinea, has decided )t to go on with the project, sasons for the decision are not lown.

Early this year a group of Lae sidents decided to exploit the idea a pineapple cannery. It was he wed that New Guinea could pro ice sufficient pines to make 10,000 ns of canned pineapple per annum. market for this was said to be isured.

There have been many attempts the Pacific to establish pineapple mneries but soon or later they >pear to come up against insuper )le obstacles.

The most successful was that of ie Colonial Sugar Refining Com my, near Nadi, Fiji. This cannery, ter functioning for 20 years, was osed down a few months ago. The SR announced that it was un sonomic; lack of more suitable nd to extend the pineapple planta ons was one factor in the com my’s decision.

A census will be taken in New aledonia at the end of the year, ast was in 1951.

tf The Governor of Fiji and Lady Garvey paid an official visit to the Island of Rabi, home of the Bana ban community (Ocean Islanders), July 2-5.

U Mr. and Mrs. John Emery, with their two sons, arrived in Lae, New Guinea, in mid-June to make their home in the Territory again after an absence of almost 20 years. Mrs.

Emery was Eileen Wilde, and was born in Kavieng, New Ireland, daughter of a well known Territory pioneer. Mr. Emery was a well known resident of Morobe; both left the Territory shortly before World War 11. t Many people were awakened in Lae, NG, in the early hours of June 13 by an earth tremor which lasted ten seconds. Vulcanological equip ment registered the tremor as Strength 4. It occurred at 3.12 a.m.; there was no damage.