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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 November 1944Vol. XV, No. 4

Copra Rise

p. 17 · Read in the full issue

Fiji Planters Benefit

IT has been announced by the Fiji Con troller of Production and Marketing that from October 5, 1944, and until further notice, the purchase price of copra at Suva and Levuka, Fiji, will be £2O per ton for plantation grade and £lB/10/- per ton for fair merchantable sun-dried copra.

This represents a rise of 10/- per ton on previous prices for each grade of copra.

This new price is exclusive of the Fiji bonus of 15/- per ton.

Miss Colledge, of the Methodist Mission.

Fiji, has resigned.