BSIP'S Copra Advice:

Go On With the Cooking

With the copra market Jail ing, a sign of the times that Dill bring back some unhappy nemories of pre-war planters is L .his recent announcement in the *Western News”, a monthly lewsletter published by the government in the Western District of the BSIP, mainly for he benefit of the native people: “Now that the price of copra las come down to £65 a ton for Jrade I and £6l a ton for Grade II (August price was £6O for Jrade I), many people are ask ng why the price changes so nuch, and why it was necessary o alter it in the middle of the nonth. Some even say that the rresent price is no good, and hat they will not cook much '.opra until it is worth more.

Vhis is foolish talk, because at '.65 a ton the price is still quite rood. Try to remember how nuch a ton was paid for copra lefore the war, or ask some of he older men, then you will see oday’s price is very much letter. . . .

“Nobody complains when copra foes up, and everybody com plains when it comes down, but emember, even at £6O a ton you an still make a lot of money iy cooking copra”

The Western District last year rroduced 41 per cent, of the Protectorate’s entire copra out put, and 72.8 per cent, of this listrict’s production was grown iy the natives.