Ng Copra Exports
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Official Figures
ACCORDING to the Minister for Ex ternal Territories, the copra shipping position in Papua and New Guinea has now been cleared up. In answer to several questions put to him in the House in Canberra on copra production and ex port in the combined New Guinea terri tories, he replied as follows on July 12: Some quantities of copra were held up because of the lack of shipping, but that position has been cleared up recently. The particulars of the exports of copra from the Territory of Papua-New Guinea, since the Ist January, 1946, are as follows:
(Final fieures not yet available.)
Tons.
January 879 February 69 March 328 April 2,349 May Nil June 2,000* 5,625