The Rabaul record

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Nq 940.394098 RAB
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Rabaul : Govt. Printer, 1916-[1918]
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Vol. 2, no. 4 (1st April 1917)
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THE It AIS AI I. RECORD.  

Transmitted through post as  

Newspaper.  

Obtainable at all Post Offices through-  

out the Colon}?.  

Published on the Ist of Each Month.  

Vol. lI.?No. 4, RABAUL, Ist APRIL, 1917. Price, 6d.  

The Possibilities of the Possessions  

RUPERT N. LESLIE.  

JEE trend of affairs undoubtedly points  

to the present as being an opportune  

time for drawing the attention of parties  

interested to the wonderful possibilities of  

this country in the way of Tropical  

Agriculture, and the methods to be adopted  

to derive the best results.  

At the proper time huge tracts of beauti-  

ful land capable of producing most of the  

tropical products in daily use will possibly be  

available for selection in areas to suit from  

the smaller settler to the largest company.  

The whole world is constantly calling  

out for products such as Rubber, Copra,  

Cocoa, Sugar, Vanilla, Ginger, Pepper,  

Cardamoms, Nutmegs, Mace, Tapioca, Ar-  

rowroot, Fibres of various kinds and Quinine,  

to say nothing of the many fruits and in-  

numerable other products peculiar to the  

tropics and that can not be grown any-  

where better than here. All of the above  

named can be depended upon to give more  

or less payable return in from one to ten  

years according to the planter?s fancy, and  

most of them have been grown in this  

country and established beyond doubt their  

ability, under careful cultivation and manage-  

ment to yield crops equal to if not better than  

those harvested in other parts of the tropics.  

These facts should be more than sufficient  

inducement to settlement, but when you  

add to this the significant fact that w'e have  

an excellent market for the products of the  

soil right at our front door, no further  

incentive should be necessary to speedy  

settlement.  

In the past Australian manufacturers and  

others utilising tropical economic pro-  

ductions have been importing their requi-  

rements from various parts of the world,  

principally Europe, and it is very well  

known in the commercial community that  

quite large percentage of said productions  

imported from there in pre-war days, were  

grown at their own back door. Take Cocoa  

and Vanilla for instance. It would be very  

interesting to know Just how much of the  

total quantities of these articles imported  

into the Commonwealth from time to time  

were purchased direct from the adjacent  

sources of supply. It is well known that  

no better Cocoa is grown than that from  

here and Samoa; and Tahiti produces  

excellent Vanilla and by the way there is  

no doubt that at least equal results in this  

line could be obtained here. Most of the  

crops from these two sources were, at one  

time, always shipped ?home,? to be re-  

turned to the Australian manufacturer or  

merchant after about three different firms  

or brokers had scooped handsome profit  

out of them, and moreover it is very prob-  

able that both commodities passed through  

some Australian port, and possibly were  

stored for some time pending transhipment  

to European or other markets, there to be  

purchased on behalf of Australian manufac-  

turers at price with all freight and other  

charges to the port of transhipment plus  

transhipping charges to the home going-  

vessel, plus freight, insurance, handling and  

landing charges, dock dues, and probably  

duty, brokers? commission and host of  

other incidental expenses, all of which  

will have been incurred before the produce  

is bought. Then on top of all this  

list of charges very similar in  

proportion to that incurred on the  

homeward trip will have to be met on  

the outward trip again. By the time the  

produce gets back to the Commonwealth,  

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