Copra Board

Zr To The Editor

Copra Board [?]", Or [?]e Just “Saucy”

—The BSIP Copra Board

il Report for the year ended

iber 30, 1958 (only re

issued to producers here)

it on page 9: e Board, noting the growing opment of the cocoa industry hich many copra producers becoming increasingly con d, believing that the Board’s ience and organisation in eting copra would be of value ; cocoa industry when market "rangements have to be made, )es that the Government be id to examine the question whether or not the Copra i should be converted into a ice marketing Board for the )se of marketing all primary lets including cocoa and pro that the Managing Secre acts for the Board and re in due course. planters actively planting or tig to plant cacao are in the i District. All of them are s of the only planter’s organ in the Solomons and one of their nominee on the Copra erefore, struck some of us as that the resolution was 1 at the Government in the itance without any approach tern planters to determine leas in the matter. As it our Primary Producers’ and Association of the Western is, a young and virile body, ve some ideas on the subject -se are in the direction of ng our own cocoa through i Association. le has any quarrel with the Board as a Copra Board. On trary it is held to be doing job. Neither has anyone ;ly that the Board would not cocoa with similar effici ut the fact that any body, •ad or indifferent, blandly the Government” to decide ;r or not”, etc., rankles and inkle just as deeply “whether we had other plans of our le courtesy in the beginning erhaps have made some dif and its absence—like the ollable urge on the part of officialdom to take charge ‘ peoples’ business—is a sign imes.

Yes, there are producer members on the Copra Board and good ones

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sigmncant quantity of cocoa is ready to be marketed by anyone), and impertinent and the dictionary wltht tter d u te e™or bounds; rudely officious; pert; saucy; T . i am, etc.,

A Western Planter.

Gizo BSIP * irtcn Zi, 1959.

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A N6W Lease Ot Life

Afte , r bein 8 in the doldrums for several years, the Honiara Chamber of Commerce has been revived. It’s T neW helmsmen are: Chairman, E. V.

Law spn; vice-chairman, Evan Evans; secretary. Lionel Ho Kee‘ commitfpp chan Chee, Quan Hong ono nf if , ,

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It also wants to get a statement from the Government on its immi gration policy; and an appointment of a Registrar so that Local Gov ernment legislation can be imple mented and companies incorporated.