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COCO-NUT PLANTING IN PAPUA 

 (BRITISH NEW GUINEA). 



MR. STANIFORTH SMITH, formerly Admin- 

 istrator of Papua or British New Guinea, 

 whom we had the pleasure of hearing lecture 

 before the Royal Geographical Society, issued 

 in 1909 a second edition of his Handbook of 

 the Territory of Papua l in which he gave 

 much useful information on the possibilities of 

 the British portion of this Island for growing 

 rubber, tobacco, cacao, coco-nuts, &c. The 

 information re recruiting labour, labour ordi- 

 nances, labour licences, land laws, estate manage- 

 ment, &c., occupies a substantial portion of the 

 book, and is worth careful consideration and 

 comparison even by those engaged in planting 

 outside Papua. The following notes are chiefly, 

 in fact mainly, taken from this book, but they 

 by no means exhaust all the information given. 



The native population is unknown, but is 

 estimated at between 400,000 and 500,000. 

 There is an Immigration Restriction Ordinance 

 which tends to discourage outside labour, but 

 at the same time the local supply seems 



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