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'kobra' Yesterday—Copra Today -May Be Taxed Tomorrow!

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“ald“a°- and Sam ° a alWays Webster says that the original word was the Malayan “kopperah”, or the Hlndu “khopra”. PP ’

Anyway, whatever its history, the desirable commodity today is sell mg at close to £lo ° Per ton Aus tralian, at main islands port, and coconut plantations in income-tax free countries are acquiring a new iustre. But New Guinea’s tortured tax-collector cannot sleep at nights he fears that the record price will shrink back to normal before he can get his long-cherished taxation machinery into operation.