Copra Prices In The 30’S

Letter to the Editor IT is possible that the following figures may interest copra-growers. Thev are in sterling, and subject to 25 per cent, addition. They are the prices we in Papua received for Smoked Copra in the years mentioned, and are the average based on a weekly quotation for the year: 1931 £6/14 ' 2 1932 £8 2/- 1933 £5/1/10 1934 £3/01 I am, etc..

Percy J. Wood.

The insignia and Grant of Dignity of the MBE, -conferred on Mrs. A. M. Bode, were presented to her in Honolulu by the British Consul on January 13. During the war Mrs. Bode was a prominent mem ber of the women’s organisations re sponsible for the welfare of troops on leave in Suva.