Yesterday
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A PIM story drew attention to the restrictions in Australia against margarine, made with vegetable oil, and the government preference for butter, which cost the Commowealth £B,OOO annually in subsidy. PIM pointed out that this didn’t help the Islands copra industry one jot.
Sir Brian Freeston, Governor of Fiji, told the Fiji Legislative Council in October that, thanks to copra and sugar agreements, the colony was amply protected in respect of its two main exports for the next eight years, and thus the general economic position of Fiji was good.
Mrs. Fa’amu Matcfafa, one of the last representatives of the older generation of the paramount royal families of Samoa—had just died in Apia, aged 68. She was a direct descendent of the Malietoa who received John Williams, the mis sionary, in 1830.
Tonga’s Tin Can Island (Niua fo’ou), unoccupied since a devastating eruption in 1946, was again the scene of activity. Copra cutters were living there, and there was plenty to do.