Northern Territory
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[?]t Project Launched Northern Territory
LD rice production is increas ig and Australia should weigh a valuable contribution if a 50-million-dollar project to i a vast rice bowl in her rn Territory succeeds, tory Rice Ltd., the company is launched the NT venture, ed 220 acres off an experi rice planting this year. In ier it will plant 1,500 acres d. Just a year later it will a 10,000-acre planting and his it hopes to reap in May. :om one to two tons of rice •e —its first commercial crop.
Australian Government is ating by making 500,000 f land available in NT. company—mainly American, ;h Mainguard, an Australian lent concern, providing a Df the finance —proposes to i 750,000 acres on a 30-year selling 500-acre parcels to t farmers as the project ex late production aim is 500,000 year. And, according to a ry Rice Ltd. spokesman, the ly hopes to sell its deliveries than 2d a pound—£lB/13/i. This should be good news G and other Pacific Islands’ insumers who currently are over £6O per ton f.o.b. Syd
ney; but bad news for Islands rice growers who have been getting the equivalent to imported price.
t The Methodist Mission Board in Australia is arranging for the Duntroon to make a missionary JSi? 6 T to i Flji ’ Ton g a and Samoa next July. She will carry 360 passengers on a round voyage from Sydney that will take about 3’. week> Ports of call will be Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau and Apia.
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