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A Western Samoan business man wrote to a machinery manufacturer in Italy seeking a machine for making buttons out of coconut shell.

“We regret we do not make machines for coconut buttons.

We do not think you can make buttons from coconuts,” said the reply.

Nothing daunted, the business man wrote to another firm in Italy. He received in the return mail complete specifications for a veneer slicing mill.

He is still looking for a machine to make coconut but tons!