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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 9

Samoa Does Not Like

pp. 137-139 · Read in the full issue

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*RA grading, recently intro need into Western Samoa, is 0 more popular in that Terri than elsewhere. theory, many planters agree there should be grading; but . their own copra is down d or rejected they are apt to a different view of it.

Western Samoa, copra-grad ;as introduced on February 1. mid-March, merchants were ting to the low shrinkage rate sd; the Samoan producers were ting to the reduction of 6/- per )s on second-grade copra. And was general disagreement on competence of the various ils to decide which was high copra and which was not. 1 latter point is one in which »pra-grading schemes suffer to extent. Basically, copra tig as it now operates in the c, is governed by the individual of copra-inspectors. And as differs to some degree from the s, there must be variations in decisions. til such time as copra grading ne with scientific instruments, removed from the decisions of m beings, there no doubt will iue to be howls from the is.

Bussey-

Williams

Wedding

At the Church of England, Port Moresby on March 1, Miss Hilary Williams was married to Mr. R. W.

Bussey.

Photo: Papuan Prints.