Fiji Planters Get Less
p. 81 · Read in the full issue
For Copra
BECAUSE of increased handling charges, the Fiji Copra Board has decided to reduce by £1 the local price paid for copra.
As from May 7 the local buying price at Suva and Levuka is £FS4 10 6 for plantation grade and £FS4 5 - for FMS grade.
Two anthropologists will visit Papua- New Guinea later this year. They are Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Bemdt, graduates of s y dne y University. Mrs Berndt recently won a Fellowship of the International Fe I J erat^< ? l ? will enable her to carry out her New Guinea work. The University of Sydney has arranged that Mr. Berndt will also be able to carry out work in P-NG while Mrs. Bemdt is there.