Copra
p. 37 · Read in the full issue
Higher Rate For Better
From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, Feb. 20.
THE British Solomon Islands Copra Board has accepted an offier from the Ministry of Food, London, to pay a premium of one pound sterling per ton for hot air dried copra or its equivalent, with a discount of ten shillings sterling for FMS or its equivalent.
This offer was accepted on the assumption that the two local BSIP
grades, Plantation and FM are equal to hot air dried and FMS respectively. (Some months ago the MOF complained of the bad quality of conra shipped to the UK from BSI.) Simione Nadakuitavuki, one of Fiji’s oldest Assistant Medical Practitioners, died in Suva in February in his 62nd year. He qualified in 1910, and was posted to Makogai, in 1911. He had served in almost every district in the Colony before he retired in 1942.