Resurrection Of Mangaia
p. 66 · Read in the full issue
Copra Industry
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Mangaia, Nov. —.
AFTER long years of exile, King Copra sits again upon his oily throne.
The familiar festoons of half-nuts hang drying in the sun, and house-roofs (iron) are in use once more as dehydrating plants. It’s just like old times!
Owing to the crying demand in Europe for edible fats, South Sea copra is now fetching a worth-while price, that justi fies the labour of copra-making.
The local tea-houses are accepting nuts as currency, many a roll and cup of coffee are bought with dry coconuts, and everyone wonders, why no one had tried it before!
But when copra was 4d. per lb., a cart load of nuts would not have been negoti able at the village tea shops, now so eager to get all the copra they can.