Pacific Islands Monthly
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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1950Vol. XX, No. 7

Annoy Planters

p. 12 · Read in the full issue

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Fires In Copro Driers Annoy Planters

From Our Own Correspondent

Sohana, Feb. 8.

WITHIN a short time of one another three fires have occurred in copra driers at Kessa, Karoola and Jame Plantations. These fires have caused serious concern among Buka planters, who do not know whether to attribute it to extreme carelessness on the part of native attendants or deliberate action by some fire bug.

Destruction of driers gives a plantation a severe financial set-back as well as re ducing the district’s copra production.

Material for rebuilding the driers is also extremely difficult to obtain.

The District Officer has been asked by the Bougainville Planters’ Association to make a full investigation immediately.

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