Marketing in P-NG
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Control of Copra Marketing in P-NG
r[E request of the Papua-New Guinea planting interests, that some form of market control of copra should be introduced when the British Ministry of Food Con tract expires at the end of 1957, has been agreed to by Australia.
The other copra-producing coun tries within the MOF contract— notably, Fiji, Western Samoa, Tonga and Solomons —are expected to take similar action within the coming year.
The Australian Minister for Ter ritories (Mr. Hasluck) announced on May 23 that the new system of
marketing P-NG copra would be controlled by a Board constituted generally in the same way as the present Copra Marketing Board.
The matter was discussed fully with representatives of producers, at a Conference in Rabaul.
The Copra Marketing Board Ordinance will be amended to pro vide for an increase in the merr/oer ship of the Board from five to six, with two members representing NG and one representing Papua copra producers. Copra will be sold “only in the best interests of the copra producers”, The present F-NG Copra Market ing Board is to proceed immediately with necessary initial arrangements for the marketing of copra after 1957.