Fiji’S Copra Contract

IN reply to an enquiry by the Govern ment of Fiji, the British Ministry of Food has stated jdiat under the re cently-negotiated nine-years contract for the purchase of Fiji copra, the new price (which will become payable on January 1 each year) will apply to all fresh pur chases from producers. Stocks already in merchants’. hands will be bought at the previous year’s price.

Late in December the Fiji Copra Board announced that the local buying price of copra from January 1, 1949, was £F49/10/6.