Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 6

New Copra Handling at Blanche Bay

p. 61 · Read in the full issue

Page 6161

Blanche Bay

The P-NG Copra Marketing Board has opened a new depot at Kabakanl In the Kokopo area, New Britain, and the former receiving: centre at Takubar has been closed. The Board says the hew depot is more central for producers on the southern shore of Blanche Bay, and It also has a better anchorage. A new causeway and jetty has been built at the new depot, and the possibility of Bank line freighters lying off Kabakaul to take direct loading for Britain, is being discussed. Speedier handling of copra from producers’ trucks has been made possible by the installation of a road weighbridge, instead of the old system of single-bag scales.

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