Island products, like the prcduets of every other place, have of late greatly depreciated in value, writes the Rev. M. Frater, from Paama, New Hebrides. The steady fall in the price of copra, which is the staple product of the New Hebrides, has caused universal depression throughout the group, affecting the natives as well as the whites. So great was the natives' distrust of the European trader that they at first imagined that the low prices were a device of the foreigner to secure higher profits. In some islands they struck work altogether and refused to make copra, allowing their coconuts to lie on the ground and germinate rather than submit to what they thought was. the imposition of the whites.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 17
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121Page 17 Advertisements Column 3 Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 17
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