5,000 Tons Of Tahiti Copra
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From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Oct. 19.
THE cargo steamer “Granpark” arriv ed at Papeete on October 11, to lift copra which had accumulated during past months.
The urgent demands for the chrome and nickel ores of New Caledonia by the metallurgic industries of France, have taxed the cargo space of the Messageries Maritimes steamers that little room has been available for Tahiti copra, and ac cumulations here reached 5,000 tons. It was necessary, therefore, to charter a special steamer to transport this cargo.
The entire production in French Oceania is marketed in France.
Rev. H. Shelton, of Ulu, New Britain, is now in Sydney on leave