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Pacific Islands Monthly, 16 September 1941Vol. XII, No. 2

Current Copra Prices

p. 64 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent

Pt. Moresby, Sept. 5.

THE current quotation in Port Moresby on September 5 for hot-air-dried plantation copra was £6 per ton in store Port Moresby; sun-dried plantation copra was £5/15/- per ton in store Port Moresby. (Australian currency.) Mr. K. Paul, of Nyngan, NSW, has taken up a position with the Bank of New South Wales at Rabaul, New Guinea.

The three years’ term of Mr. and Mrs.

F. P. Ward, SDA missionaries on Pit cairn Island, expired in June, but they were asked by the Australasian Union Conference, to remain a year longer in their isolated post.