Copra Production In The
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Solomons
A 37-YEARS-OLD Brisbane company Solomon Islands Rubber Plantations Ltd., with an issued capital of £76,421, owning 60,500 coconut palms and 8,356 rubber trees, reports that the production of copra was recommenced in June last, after si> years of idleness. Rubber is not being produced.
The BSI Administration is taking all copra produced at £35 per ton, less 15 per cent, tax., which is far below world parity.
The directors intend to press for com pensation for damage sustained during the invasion and for losses suffered dur ing the long period of rehabilitation.
Mr. J. Darlington,, who is in charge of the company’s plantations, reports that labour is not plentiful, but indications are that the position may improve.