Copra Tax Suspended
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From Our Own Correspondent,
Rarotonga, Aug. 17.
OWING to the low price ruling for copra, the export tax of £1 per ton from the Cook Islands has been suspended from July 22. , This will materially assist the native producers in the Northern Cooks, where they are dependent on copra alone.
Professor L. C. Graton, of the Univer sity of Harvard, U.S.A., recently arrived in New Caledonia to carry out a geological survey for the International Nickel Co., of Canada.