Soap From Coconuts
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From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, August 25
AN enterprising planter and trader in the Gulf Division of Papua has installed machinery to crush copra for the manufacture of soap and glycerine. Several consignments of good household soap have been received in Port Moresby and sold for local con sumption.
Another project to manufacture coir fibre from coconut husks was also con sidered, but the cost of machinery for the enterprise proved prohibitive.
Mr. E. B. Bignold, Crown Law Officer in the Territory of Papua, has been ap pointed a member of the Executive Coun cil of Papua.
Mr. F. Smith arrived in Suva, Fiji, in August from Kenya to take up duties as Government Printer.