No Coconut Cream from W
p. 44 · Read in the full issue
W. Samoa!
Prom our Own correspondent
Apia Nov 10
ANEW ZEALAND Company Which was to have begun operations last year manufacturing “cream” from coco nuts in Samoa has apparently given up the plan to choose Western Samoa as a base of operations.
With the present high price of copra it seems highly improbable that the product
of the coconut could be produced and placed on the market in competition with real cream.
Auckland (NZ) newspapers, however, announced on August 21, the registration of a new company “Cococream Limited,” with a capital of £3,000; Messrs. E. H.
Kl ll^ K Dawra ? t R. H. Ridler held 750 shares each, Ed. Note: The manufacture of cream from coconuts was first planned in 1945, when Mr. Dawrant visited Western Samoa. It was thought that the cream
could be processed, canned and landed on the fat-starved European market at low cost. Europe is still fat-starved, but little or no cream has been produced in Samoa.
Although it is understood that the New Zealand Government encouraged the pro motors, Western Samoa appeared, from the outset, to be an unfortunate choice as a production centre because of its dis tance from Europe and its inadequate labour supply.