Coffee Meeting
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In January
The coffee conference, an nounced by the Minister for Territories in September, will commence in Gor oka, New Guinea Eastern Highlands, on January 19.
The idea is to bring together coffee growers, selling agents, merchants, officials of the P-NG Administration and Department of Territories, to try to beat out a sound basis for future market ing of coffee in Australia —at present NG’s only market.
Coffee marketing in Australia end particularly what the NG producer was up against—was dealt with fully in “PIM ” in June, page 69. The position does not seem to have changed since then.
It is hoped that a represent ative delegation of the Aus tralian coffee merchants will take this opportunity to visit the Territory to gain first-hand knowledge of how the crop is grown there. It was reported from some quarters in late October that some of the largest merchants were not keen to send representatives—on the ground of expense, which would prob ably be around £2OO per person.