Copra Inspection

Again In

Papua-N. Guinea

Port Moresby, Nov. 2.

THE Administration has made the following announcement:— The Department of Agriculture advises that it is intended to resume inspection of copra in New Guinea in the near future. Arrangements are in hand for the appointment of inspectors under the Copra Ordinance, 1928-1940, and opera tions will commence as soon as trained men are available.

It is the Department’s desire that the standard of copra produced shall be raised to the equivalent of that produced prior to the outbreak of war, and inspection will be resumed with that object.

It is intended to introduce a new Ordinance providing for the standardisa tion of the quality of all primary products throughout the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

Inspections of copra will be carried out throughout the Territory as soon as the new Ordinance is brought into force, in an endeavour to bring all copra exported from the Territory to a standard similar to that known on the European markets pre-war as “Rabaul Hot Air.”