Sale of P-NG Copra
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To Sweden
The Australian Government has completed a sale of 5,000 tons of copra to Sweden at £75 Stg. f.o.b. per ton. The sale is on behalf of the Papua and New Guinea Copra Marketing Board and the price com pares more than favourably with the British Ministry of Food con tract price of £65 Stg. f.o.b.
The sale was made with the agree ment of the Ministry of Food, which, under a long-term contract, has first call on all Territory copra surplus to Australian requirements.
Papua and New Guinea planters will benefit to the extent of about £A50,000 as a result of the sale. fl Mr. Vijay R. Singh, of Ba, Fiji, has passed his final examinations in Law in London.