[?]t Sydney

[?]hy Not?

Pacific Industries [?]t Sydney coyal Show

(TITHIN the area of Australia’s tropical territories New Guinea, Papua, Nauru, Norfolk (and and Northern Territory be especially noticed —there now established a number of im ftant industries and the Council fthe Planters’ Association of New itinea has advanced the interest ( idea that those industries are Tthy of an exhibition, or trade r.

Would it not be possible (say some fjthe Councillors) to get the co tlration of other Territories bodies, 1 the active help of the Aus- Jlian Departments of Territories, i Trade and Commerce, and jfenise an exhibition of Australian tritories’ products, at the annual fal Easter Show, at Sydney? is Show has become Australia’s ifional exhibition.

Within the Territories, and liable of providing highly in *sting exhibits, the following in iltries are establish 2d: loconut planting, producing copra, I coconut oil, coconut meal, coir I fibre. locoa planting, producing high-

Iquality cocoa.

toffee planting, producing high j quality coffee. production of sugar, peanuts, rice land other crops. i|awn timber and ply-wood manu-

Jfacturing.

fold-mining. [fciosphate mining (Nauru) and uranium mining (Northern ■Territory).

With a little enterprise and im magination, the Territories’ display could be made one of the most colourful and interesting exhibits at Sydney’s Royal Easter Show—and it would gain most valuable publicity for the Territories’ growing in dustries.

Some of the products are dis played at the Territories Depart ment’s Sydney office but few Sydneysiders would consider going there, even if they knew the office existed. Hundreds of thousands visit the Show each Easter.