A NEW ZEALANDER IN ZANZIBAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 306, 31 December 1907, Page 4

A NEW ZEALANDER IN ZANZIBAR.

An ex-student of Canterbury Agricul College (say* tl.o is doing well m Kast Alow, ri.: u Mr K. >•■ l-yne, who il3 of Agriculture at Zanzibar, has control :!i dfve plantations, which supply world with nearly all itLvne confesses in the pages o , ' that when he was omrcu uf e position of Wr«*or ° c . A E ri, ' nl at vin»l>ar U years ago, he was «mDletelv ignorant of the practice of tropical agriculture. He went to the Director Of Kew Wardens for advice, and when lie mentioned his training, wa» tuM iiot to hesitate aliout accepting the offer. But Idsta'k «as a very difficult one. A -,-arcli in the London libraries revealed no information about agnculture Zanzibar, and when lie arnu ' J ° , were believed lo l.e diseased, and it was thought some other produce tokl bt found to supplement chnes. The , ii.ni were a wilderness Ot weens, i to the government had touched with the hoe for - in nla.-es were enveloped in ? T ' There lia-l j"-t l»'en a relvelhon. ;;;"twn l J beenby British lb, finance-; vere in a desperate "7ii.iln "n'i tbo abolition of slavery i,n-atened the ™nM»lete disor^«us,.m.i ' killed""h<iuk Ood, in Zanzibar- but the which offered no encouragement to the ; planter, and as the prhicip.! l r< Vl dutv in'kiml upon ,1 ltttti a diought oir»md, I o ! , I lh .. plantations; the exhausted tu -. unable l. npen their fruit, shed in..iw--1 'lire lU*>» the «roUU»l< • • * * ~ll' people in the twois . ...... indeed a gloomy outlook, but i : apparent before long tl.nt the tree, were iot di-ea,ed, but wanted light-iml ,; r The outlook to-day u ver> ro->. fen vear- ago the clove crop was wo. this year it will »« ™|' l « U . Cil " ■ ,e l ,^ l "h' : risen world'- consumption »! i "»>»■; '• lu I« cent., and the pnee b\ .it" uaditioii o, .-laverv. and W tlut thoii-anils «.. poi™ > * dove- may lie 10-t o„vernare no hands to pick tli< ui. I'k n r '' ll T^Tl» the There SfjUZZ* the locking tw worv but for the 1„. i.reived at l.mcp':-. training lie i< < <»' 11