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Discuss Copra After 1958
: will have two and probably ree representatives at the rthcoming London conference jra-marketing. t of the other British pro- : territories in the South who are more united on tie they will take after the Copra Agreement ends on ber 31, this year, will send , L of ß a number W of nlantftiSS ■ on Vanua f LeTO and ii- nrobablv Mr Director of Agriculture in
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ers and the eroun J the olanters such as th g p Brnm Innas’ S and the big S lot yet ’ announced whether ill bG renresented nr not r Pacific lowing representatives: „ .. „ ’ TUorvi r H^ n •cPioT.i* 16 f' N< ?
Marketing Board, who is at,, tti t J andS ‘ Ml ' E ' J ‘ o?’ who travelern Samoa: The Hon. M. lelei, who travelled to d via Canada. aii, and rr N H ie:^ NZ Govern ' Senior Trade Commissioner nt indications are that the will be divided into three is in relation to future Lng: is generally believed that 11 continue to sell mostly to ■ushers. pua-New Guinea and the n Islands will combine to
ship their copra by the westward route to Europe—with the local crushing mill at Rabaul receiving about the same proportion of local copra as at present. • Western Samoa, Tonga and Gilbert and Ellice Islands will combine to ship copra by the Panama Route—or to combine in the construction of a central mill for local crushing. ’ n “ c °P ra mill is the idea of Prince Tungi. However, it would take two or three years to gefc [t l nto °P eration and whether it would be an economic proposition for two small territories which produce a relatively small amount of copra would need careful investigation, Wjtti,£ ss than six months to go before the IVfOF contract ends, the organisations f en £ U n h left A? decide what shall be done with South Pacific copra in 1958. After they have met in conference in London with the representatives of the crushers, delegates will return to their respective territories to make a full re P° rt '