Inst Administration

le Pioneering [?]ew Guinea

[?]K Leahy Issues Writ

UTS claiming £lO,OOO damages from the Administration have been issued by Mr. M. J. y, well-known New Guinea ser and farmer, and should be l early in the coming year.

I Leahy claims that, owing to il negligence, cattle-ticks were fluced to his well-known farm Biag, some 4,000 feet above the ham Valley, and that he by suffered much loss in us directions before he got the b under control. [Leahy began cattle-breeding enag after the war, and he has about 500 head there. He lodern milking equipment, and ies milk in considerable pity to the town of Lae. Lae ill treated in that respect—a supply comes in also from the pan Mission, on the eastern If the town. [Leahy is deeply interested in poblem of producing a suit- K beast for New Guinea pons, and has experimented i with the European-Zebu IHe and others believe they letting close to the famous iGertrudis type, and predict ilthy cattle future for New !a pas given close attention to (res—the establishment of res to supplant the kunai p is the crux of the problem I after long experiment and [and consultation with his ;rs James (Goroka) and Dan pagen), he believes that the irasses for a cattle-conscious Guinea, in order of priority, be; paspalum, kikuyu, white I Townsville lucerne and lan lucerne. These grasses, |rse. are for lands lying at 8,000 feet above sea-level. [Leahy, and other farmers, Qterested in a shipment of Ittle, mostly Zebu crossbreds, [arrived in Lae from Cairns lend of November, and now Belling at the Government mental station at the mouth I Markham, three miles from y represent the enterprise of s. R. L. Atkinson and Sons hey presently will commence t of 90 miles up the Markham ’> to the new Atkinson fty near Gusap, 1,500 feet up.

I animals apparently are hng in the Markham pasture, in fine condition, the indications are that the i industry is on the way to I established profitably in

Guinea.-

R.W.R.