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Papuan Desiccated Coconut Factory Out of Business
THE difficulties of selling Papuan desiccated coconut in Australia is the main reason why the Territory’s largest desiccated coco nut factory has closed down.
The factory, of Coconut Products Limited, of Aroa Plantation, Hisiu Beach, put everything up for tender in May—including a steel frame factory building of 15,000 square feet, three residences. 11 native labour houses, machinery and plant, including 4 Harvey desiccated coco nut dryers and 3 exhaust dryers.
Coconut Products (which is not connected with the company of the same name in Rabaul) has been manufacturing desiccated for y 0, Tliey believed the market for Papuan coconut for the next few years will be uncertain following Australian publicity over contamm at No one has"'yet found out what caused the contamination.
Another bacteriologist will arrive in the Territory about to carry on the investigations which sorted last year. He will be from the Com monwealth Department of Health, and be seconded to the Adminis tration.