Melbourne Rope
p. 26 · Read in the full issue
“ Promising ”
Lae Sisal for Melbourne Rope
A MELBOURNE rope manufac turing company received the first Sisal exported commerci ally from Lae, NG, in early July.
The Sisal was grown on the Bubia Experimental Station, about eight miles from Lae. The shipment was described as being of top quality and equal to the best avail able in the world. The price now is in the vicinity of £ll2 per ton.
Time alone will tell whether Sisal will become one of the many small crops developed by the small farmer. —Lae Correspondent. (As our correspondent says, time will tell. . . as time has, apparently, already told with the “promising”
kenaf industry and the “promis:; manila hemp industry—both which crops were grown experirmj ally, at Bubia.)