New System In N. Ireland.
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Native Copra.
From Our Own Correspondent. -
Kavieng, Sept. 20.
THE German steamer “Friedrun” lifted about 600 bags of native copra, shipped for the natives by Mr. T.
Gordon as their agent.
Since Mr. Gordon started acting as agent for the natives, very little copra has been bought by plantation owners or traders on the east coast. It seems strange that Messrs. Burns, Philp and W. R. Carpenter are allowing the “Friedrun” to have practically a ship ping monopoly of the trade copra on the east coast. Probably they prefer to leave their planters and traders to eventually win back the native trade rathejr than foster the Agency system, with its disadvantages.