New Co. Formed To Utilise
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Coconut Shell
A COMPANY has been formed in Nouto install plant in New Caledonia and the New Hebrides to utilise the Johnson process for the carbonisation of coconut shell and other waste Islands materials for industrial purposes. Mem bers of the syndicate interested in the new project are Messrs. W. H. Caporn, S. T. Anderson, A. Mercier, L. Collardeau, G. Ventrillon, and H. Ferrand.
It was reported from Malaya recently that copra planters there were putting in similar special machinery to produce 25 tons of clean, hard charcoal a month.
Coconut charcoal is in constant demand in Europe for making gasmasks.
Mrs. R. C. Evans, wife of the Town Clerk at Suva, accompanied by Mrs. I).
B. Smith, arrived in Australia by the Aorangi in November.