Primage
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Desiccated Coconut
Thursday Is. Plan to Avoid Primage
IT is reported that a small local company is taking steps to establish in Thurs day Island a factory for the manufacture of desiccated coconut.
Under the present ridiculous conditions imposed by the Australian Customs, desic cated coconut from Papua and New Guinea is forced to pay a primage duty.
The idea behind the Thursday Island plan is to manufacture desiccated coconut there, from material supplied by the Torres Strait Islands, and that this will enter the Australian market as an Aus tralian product and consequently be free from primage. Thursday Island, of course, is a part of Australia proper.