High Price for Coconut
p. 15 · Read in the full issue
Charcoal
ACCORDING to recent reports from Fiii, coconut charcoal is providing a welcome addition to the income of planters.
This nroduct is now bringing £l2 (equal to £l3/10/- Australian) per ton from the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Ltd., who provide free sacks, insurance and freight. It has been estimated that from every ton of copra produced, five hundredweight of prepared charcoal can be made. Formerly coconut shell was almost a waste product of nlantations but, under war conditions, it is in great demand, both as a fuel and for use in resnirators.
Coconut shell, when properly treated, gives the finest charcoal, with the highest carbon content that it is possible to produce.
Sergeant R. E. Emery, formerly of Lae, New Guinea, was wounded in action in New Guinea in October and later arrived in Australia on sick leave.