India Now Wants Copra
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INDIA’S rapid industrialisation has re suited in a keen demand for Ceylon’s products as raw materials. India’s consuming capacity for Ceylon copra, for instance, is definitely greater to-day than it was in the pre-war period, owing to the fact that the number of oil mills and soap factories has increased consid erably, said Ceylon’s Trade Commis sioner in Bombay in an interview with the Ceylon News. More factories are to be established in the near future for the manufacture of high-grade soap, mar garine, vegetable tallow, etc., and India’s and India’s needs for substantial quan tities of copra and coconut oil place her in a position to absorb a major portion of the Island’s copra output.
A new Price Control Committee for Suva, Fiji, has now been appointed. Its members are the Controller of Prices, (chairman); Mr. C. W. Aidney (repre senting the Suva Chamber of Commerce; Mr. N. D. Patel (representing the Suva Indian Chamber of Commerce); Mr. D.
Dudley; Mr. D. M. N. McFarlane; Mr. W.
Gatward and Mrs. J. P. Mullins,