Increased Transport
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Costs For N. Britain Planters
From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, March 16.
P BLOWING a recent visit to Rabaul and district by the Chairman of the Production Control Board, it has been decided that the transport of copra from Kokopo to Rabaul (a distance by water of about 12 miles) should be taken entirely out of the hands of private en terprise and be given to Government motor vessels.
Subsequently planters in the Kokopo district have been notified that trans port costs on their copra will be increased 12/6 per ton.
In addition, for some reason known only to the commissars of remote-con trol in Port Moresby, 25 per cent, of the value of their copra is withheld from planters on their delivery of it to the store or ships in Rabaul.
Two faults occurred in the trans pacific cable shortly before Easter and the NZ Government ship “Matai” was requisitioned for repair purposes. The faults are between Auckland and Nor folk Island and between Norfolk Island and Suva.