P-Ng Copra, Rubber Will

Be Officially Graded

From Our Own Correspondent.

Port Moresby, Feb. 20.

COPRA inspection and grading will come into operation soon at all Territory ports. The Copra Grading Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council in 1952 has received the assent of the Adminis trator, and regulations will be ap proved shortly.

Similar legislation for the inspec tion, grading and packing of rubber will be introduced in the Legislative Council this year. It is understood that it will provide for inspections to be made at the plantations, not at the main ports, as with copra.

This legislation was suggested by the Planters’ Association of Papua in an interview with the Territories Minister during his last visit to the Territory.

James Joseph Kenny, who recently arrived in NSW from New Guinea, appeared in the Sydney Central Court on February 21 on a charge of falsely pretending that he was Dr. J. J. Kenny, in charge of a 60-bed hospital at Abau, Papua. It was alleged that Kenny had at tempted to obtain medical equip ment worth £1,472 from Watson Victor Ltd., of Sydney. He was re manded on £3OO bail.