Price Of Copra In Tonga
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117RITING to the Government of Tonga ff several months ago. Mr. S. P.
Afuhaamango directed attention to the fact that the Tongan producer of copra was receiving only £ll per ton for A grade; £9 for B grade; £7 for C grade; and £5 for D grade. He pointed out that the Tongan producers should have been receiving, according to world values as published in most newspapers, at least £lB to £2O per ton, and he pressed for in formation as to what was becoming of the balance of the moneys received by the Government for copra. Up to the end of February last he had received no reply from the Tongan Government.