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Pacific Islands Monthly, 24 February 1937Vol. VII, No. 7

New Type Of Coconut

pp. 67-68 · Read in the full issue

Grater

A NEW type of machine for paring coconuts, invented by Mr. Norman Izod, engineer, of Samarai, Papua, has received a good deal of attention lately from people interested in the desiccated coconut industry. Mr. Izod has been m Sydney during February placing his machine on the market.

Mr. K. W. Bridge, Assistant D.O. at Otibanda, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the January Macdhui on leave.

With over 400 passengers on board the steamer Katoomha visited Suva in a tour ist cruise from Sydney, via Norfolk Is land and Nukualofa, on January 4. She was the first tourist ship to visit Lau toka, much to the delight of residents of that district. Many of the visitors tra velled overland from Suva to Lautoka.