[?]Egline In Copra Areas
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F replanting is not undertaken soon, copra production in New Ireland would eventually cease, lid Mr. L. W. Bell, well-known ;sident of New Guinea, when he rrived in Brisbane in mid-October.
He said that plantation areas r ere gradually decreasing in size nd that there had been no coco uts planted since the war because f high labour costs and the relative >w price that NG planters get for tieir cQpra.
Most New Ireland plantations rere planted up in the German ays and are now getting towards tie end of their useful life.
Mr. Bell himself is expanding the rea he already has under cocoa.
A radio-telephone service has been stablished between New Caledonia nd its dependency, Wallis Island.
Tallis is normally very isolated, eing visited by a ship only once very six months.