Copra Business
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Native Methods In The
From Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, Aug. 14.
COPRA sacks, petrol and even trans port vehicles are being “borrowed by local natives in order to market village copra. The vehicles are generally those which belong to some employer of local labour. They are utilised to deli ver the village copra to the nearest Chinese merchant. Copra sacks are almost unprocurable at present by planters from either the firms or the Production Control Board.
But natives seem to have no difficulty in obtaining what they require either from the Chinese merchants or by purloining them as opportunity occurs from planta tions where they work casually.