Current Copra Prices

From Our Own Correspondents rpHE current quotation in Rabaul, New A Guinea, on October 3 for hot-air dried copra was £7 per ton; smoke dried copra, £5/10/- per ton in store, Rabaul.

In Western Samoa, in September, copra from Apia and “A” district was bringing 2/- per 100 lb.; “B” and “O” districts, 1/9 per 100 lb; and “D” district, 1/6 per 100 lb. European and plantation copra (freshly made, not store dried) was quoted at £2/10/- per ton.

Mrs. M. J. Willmott, of Karaiba Plantation, Rabaul, New Guinea, who has been in Australia since July receiving medical treatment, will enter a Sydney private hospital this month to undergo an operation.