Copra Only
p. 131 · Read in the full issue
Ng Board Will Handle
CANBERRA decided, in February, that Papua-New Guinea should have a Copra Marketing Board instead of the Commerce Board authorised by the Legislative Coun cil in November. The latter would have allowed P-NG to control almost any product; the latter limits the authority to copra.
Private enterprise thus has the right to handle any other product until another law is introduced.
Under the MOF contract, a Govern ment instrumentality must handle the copra production. Formerly, this was done by the Production Control Board. The latter now gives way to the Copra Marketing Board.