Gloomy View Of Copra
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MAJOR F. R. HEWITT, manager of Lever’s Pacific Plantations Ltd., in the Solomon Islands, considers the condition of the Pacific copra trade practically hopeless, according to an interview recently published in The Sydney Morning Herald.
Major Hewitt, who has been in the Islands for over 20 years, said that there had been a steady decline in the copra trade during the past four years and at the present time many of the smaller traders were unable to carry on operations.
He thought that some help might be given to the copra trade if greater capital was introduced.
The new mission schooner. John Wil liams, will visit Sydney next year, ac cording to Mr. “Tom” Bowling, mate of the old John Williams, who returned to Sydney by the Ventura on June 11, after six months on the new ship as pilot. The new John Williams is even a better seaboat than her predecessor, according to Mr. Bowling.