Copra Production Up
p. 115 · Read in the full issue
in Fr. Oceania
STATISTICS recently published in Papeete show that copra production for French Oceania in 1955 (21,250 long tons) was slightly above the annual average of the past ten years. The 1955 yield was 21,550 long tons The crop, which is sold on the free market, averaged about £Stg.s9/15/0 per long ton, f.o.b.
Papeete, in 1955. This compares un favourably with the negotiated British MOF price of £Stg. 65 paid to British Pacific producers in the same period. The actual total 1955 earnings were 228,166,000 Pacific Francs.
' I . Ml£ >s Mar Y Ruaine. of the Cook Islands, is the first student from New Zealand’s Island Territories to qualify as a trained domestic science instructress. She went to NZ m 1949 and attended New Plymouth Girls’ High School; later to Auckland Training College where she passed her examination. In Wellington, where she served her probationary years, she was regarded as one of the best probationary assistants in her year.
She has now returned to the Cook Islands. t The Imperial Rugby Club of Fiji was making a short tour of the Auckland Province in September- October.