Coconut Processing

Machinery on Exhibition

[>ETWEEN May and September, in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, the 55ears-old firm of Tyneside Foundry and Ingineering Co., Ltd., will stage a special zhibition of machinery designed for the rocessing of coconuts and rubber. This rm’s “Chula” (coconuts) and “Hutten ach” (rubber) machines are well known i the South Pacific—it claims that it as sent equipment to every Territory, s well as to many countries of West adies. Central America, Africa and Asia.

Any South Pacific planter in Britain nring this time might find a visit to the zhibition profitable. It will include ifferent types of copra dryers, a coconut arer, various machines designed to assist aconut dessication, a new highspeed ontinuons sheeter for rubber, a direct rive crepeing battery, and so forth. «cause labour is progressively becoming tore of a problem, most of the machines re designed to eliminate labour as much s possible.

Mr. F. P. Hewitt retired in May ifter 48 years service on the en :ineering staff of the Union Steam

Ship Co., including service in

essels on the Islands run.