Position In New Guinea
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Prom Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, March 2.
HIS Honour the Administrator, Briga dier-General Sir Walter McNicqll, stepped into the South-bound mail plane last week. He had some matters to discuss with his ministerial chiefs at Canberra—among them being the matter of ships to take our copra away from the already-overfilled copra sheds along the waterfront. Planters are be coming uneasy, and are wondering what will become of their copra if the firms should cease to buy.
Talking of ships and copra, a number of the planters are speculating about a certain news item which was sent to New York from a Hong Kong corres pondent. The writer said that large shipments of copra have been made from New Guinea to Mexico, and “it is believed to be destined by a circuitous route for Germany or Russia.”