No Copra Sacks
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Industry Paralysed in New Britain and New Ireland
Rabaul, Jan. 8.
THE unsatisfactory position regarding conra sacks doubtless is engaging the attention of Mr. C. Archer. Chief of the Production Control Board, who is visiting Rabaul.
The shortage of sacks has given copra nroduction in this part of the Territory its biggest set-back since the return of the planters the Jap invasion.
The cause is doubtless out of the hands of the Administration: but because the seat of Administration is so far awav and it seems so indifferent to their plight, the planters are naturally bitter against officialdom.
Kavieng, Jan. 6.
NATIVE copra production here in New Ireland is now practically at a stand still, owing to the shortage of copra sacks. Some of the plantations are still producing copra, and are storing it. in the hone that supplies of sacks will arrive presently.