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The Solomons
BECAUSE of the expense and inconvenience of sending copra ships to ports like Honiara (British Solomon Islands), the Fairymead Company has been pressing the BSI Administration to declare Yandina a port of entry.
The Fairymead Co., and other big coconut planters, find it much cheaper and easier to load their copra onto overseas vessels at their
own good ports; and there seems no reason why the ships should be compelled to go to the generally unsuitable Government port of Honiara.
The Administration officials seem to have left the matter where they put it—“under consideration. 5 ’
It will be an early problem for the new Administration.
Sir Alport Barker, of Suva, Fiji is at present on holiday in New Zealand.