Copra Prices in Cooks
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The following were the prices actually paid to Gook Islands growers, on the beach, by the merchants at the end of 1952me ena 01 .
Rarotonga: aid (NZ) per lb (equal to £6l Aust. per ton).
Aitutaki: 3ld.
Other Lower Group Islands: 3£d.
Northern Group: 3id.
Merchants have to pay 3d. per sack (about 28 to the ton) as a lighterage charge at some of the outer islands.
Nassau, which the Pukapuka people purchased and settled a couple of years ago, produced about 80 tons of copra in 1952.