Members Appointed
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Pngpcb Replaces Copra
Marketing Board
AS reported in March PIM, the Minister for Territories, Mr. P.
Hasluck, has announced that the New Guinea Production Control Board, established in 1943 to stimulate copra and rubber production for war pur poses, and later retained to assist the rehabilitation of New Guinea plan tations, has ceased to exist.
Its place is to be taken by a new organisation known as the Copra Marketing Board, members of which will be: Mr. I. McDonald, chairman (present chairman of the PCB); Messrs. B. Fairfax Ross and D.
Barrett (copra producers’ represen tatives); Mr. H. Reeve (Treasurer and Finance Director); and Mr. R. E. P.
Dwyer (Director of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries).
The new board's only purpose will be to control the marketing and price fixing of copra but “until other arrangements are made” it will operate the Government-owned coastal ships in P-NG waters.