Do You Remember?

From PIM of 20 Years ago.

COPRA was SO sick, back in July 1 qq4, fu Q f nr, nno hntbprpd tn 1934, that no one pothered to mention it much anymore.

Our issue for that month had many pages devoted to alternate crops, designed to help the unfortunate planter out ol his financial

Tung oil, tea, tobacco and bananas

were a few of these “savers.”

Other extracts from our July

issue, 1934:

The Full Court of NZ gave its decision in the appeal of Mr. O. F. Nelson, of Western Samoa, against a sentence of eight months’ imprisonment and 10 years’ exile from Samoa on a charge of sedition (Mr. Nelson was a leader of the Mau movement). The High Court quashed the prison sentence but upheld his exile. * * * We reported that an interesting experiment was currently being made by the Malayta Company at Cape Marsh, BSIP, for the extraction of oil from green coconuts by a “bacterial and chemical” method * * * A detective sent secretly from Sydney to work on BGD dredges at Bulolo, caught three Europeans stealing gold. * * * Brigadier-General McNicoll was confidently tipped as the successor of General Griffiths as Administrator of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. There is now a large and growing section of the community advocating the early completion of the Suva-Sigatoka Road, which with the present Sigatoka- Lautoka Road, and the Suva-Lautoka Road would provide a complete route of 300 miles around Viti Levu—a great asset for tourist traffic.”

A London report stated that Unilever was havln g difficulties with its margarine market and that a 3 per cent, loss in company earnings was the result. (The echo of planters’ cheers can be heard to this day). A chairman of one of the Unilever Groups attacked the Dominions

of-SS

be terminate d. * * * Guinea Airways reported that their attempt to establish a plane service in Fiji—abandoned some months previously— had lost them £1,200. Editorially, we commented that the withdrawal of tftis service (Fiji Airways, Ltd.) from Colony would “long be a reproach to tne

Government .

The moratorium suspending payments on New Guinea plantations being pur chased from the Expropriation Board, was extended until June, 1935. The Custodian “deplored” the necessity, but could see no help for it until the prospects for NO

crops improved.

In comparison, goldmining was boom ing. Here are some of the companies listed in that issue—most of them not even memories these days: Bulolo Gom Deposits, Ltd.. Koranga Gold Sluicing, Ltd., Edie Creek Goldmining Co., Day Go ld ftH Placer Development,

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Platinum Guinea Gold. Samarai Gold Development. Gold Mines of Papua, Ak mana NG Gold C o., Gu inea Gold, etc. * v ...

FASHION NOTE: “Transparent cello phane is hailed as fashion s friend. 1 1 » being used to trim provoking little ey veils and ties into ravishing little o under the chin.”