NEW GUINEA COPRA
LCSS OF MARKET IN EUROPE Faced with the disappearance of the copra market, New Guinea is likely to change over to the production of rubber, cocoa and coffee. The Administrator of New* Guinea, Sir Walter McNicoll, who is visiting Australia to discuss with the Fedleral Government the plight of copra growers in the Mandated Territory, said that New Guinea produced £750,000, a year. Practically all of this was sold in Europe. Because Britain had an adequate supply of oils and fats she was not prepared! to take the New Guinea output, since it would create a great strain on available shipping space. Copra is used in the production of margarine and gtycerine and for the manufacture of munitions. If a change-over is made to rubber, cocoa and coffee, developmental periods carying them five to eight years will be required to establish these industries. Papua and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea has been brought into the Commonwealth defence system. The inclusion of New Guinea in an Eight Military District is permitted under the terms of the man- 1 date, which charges Australia, among other things, with the adequate protection of the Mandated Territory.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 205, 28 August 1940, Page 3
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196NEW GUINEA COPRA Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 205, 28 August 1940, Page 3
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