—Or (Maybe) Their Cocoa Will

Give New Guinea a Run

Approximately £AIOO,OOO is to be spent from Colonial Develop ment and Welfare Fund in a project to establish the cocoa industry lU road (cost: £50,000J is to be constructed on Malaita. The new road will require the bridging of six rivers, but in conjunction with an additional o 0 miles of feeder roads provided by the Malaita Native Council, it will open up considerable areas thouaht to be suitable for the cocoa industry.

Headquarters for the industry will be at Auki, on Malaita. arid Gizo in the Western Solomons. The remainder of the grant will be usld il the establishment of the industry and it is hoped that by 1960 1 500 acres will be under cultivation on Malaita and an additional Iflaojn the western Solomons jB charge 0 , the cocoa project. Considerable progress has been made with the set ting up of experimental stations.