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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1959Vol. XXIX, No. 9

Don’t Compost

p. 135 · Read in the full issue

If In Fiji— Don’t Compost

dome gardeners who make npost heaps aren’t popular Fiji and the Coconut Pests d Diseases Board is consider putting a ban on the practice, rhe reason? Rhinoceros Hies, who like to breed in rot g vegetation, old tree stumps ind compost heaps.

Compost heaps pass muster in i if the owners turn them ie a month, and search them, me gardening enthusiasts co irate, others don’t and leave nr compost heaps or pits for nths without turning them, ese people who don’t are a eat to the Fiji copra industry, at’s official.