W. Samoa
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Copra Price Rise In
IN common with Fiji, New Guinea, etc., the Western Samoan price of copra for 1952, under the MOP nine years Agreement, has gone up the full 10 per cent, per mitted.
This will bring the 1952 price to £59/15/- Samoan (equal to Stg.) f.0.b., Apia.
The Western Samoan Copra Board has announced that the price paid at trading stations will be in creased by 3/- per 100 pounds.
Mr. B. A. Doyle, Attorney-General, Fiji, returned to Suva from overseas leave in December.
Mr. lan Downs, acting District Commissioner, Madang, has been transferred to Port Moresby as As sistant Director of District Services.
Mr. and Mrs. Downs made many friends in Madang and will be missed. Mr. Downs organised many patrols into districts which have been neglected in the post war era.