Fiji Copra Board Now
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Reducing 1945 Deficit
SUVA, July 1.
THE Fiji Copra Scheme accounts, re cently issued for February, Marchri and April, 1946, show that the debit) incurred last year, when the localL authorities were paying too much fon copra, is steadily being whittled down.
Three overseas shipments of copras were made to the United States in the? first quarter of this year, and the totali amount of copra bought by the Copra?
Board in that period was 3,386 tons. Oven 250 tons of coconut oil were shipped ten the United Kingdom in the same periodb On instructions issued by the Ministry; of Food in London, all copra and coconut oil produced in Fiji in future will go to the United Kingdom (except a small percentage which will go to Canada)!
This is to relieve the acute need for fatst in the British Isles.
Eight hundred drums of coconut oil foie Britain were lifted by the “Hazelbank’: when she was in Suva late in June.