The Shau Expands Into Morobe
p. 49 · Read in the full issue
A DEVELOPMENT of importance . to the Morobe section of New Guinea took place recently when the directors of the Wau Show Committee decided to expand their organisation into the Morobe District Agricultural Society, and to hold the Show at Wau, Lae, and other centres of the Morobe area, in rotation.
The next Show—which will be called the Morobe District Show— will be held at Wau on November 16; and the schedule of exhibits, just issued by Hon. Secretary Noel Owers, shows a number of interesting sections—farm produce, kitchen produce, many varieties of fruit,
live stock, cakes and pastry, needle work, arts and crafts, flowers, children’s handiwork, Coffee has a section to itself, but CO coa is included in farm produce, ... , , „ .
An interesting development is represented by sections for native producers, wherein competition is invited in various kinds of crops* fruits and native handicrafts. The Commonwealth Bank, with corn mendable vision, has given a, number of valuable trophies for competition in these native sections; and if the Committee succeeds in getting the natives’ interest, the result may be far-reaching.