Until the outbreak of war. when prices rose from £2 to £5 a ton. the copra industry of the British Solomon Islands and New Guinea had not recovered from the depression, according to Mr H. T. Fairbrother, an agent for native labour recruiting in the Solomon Islands, who is visiting Auckland. Stating that after the last war copra was selling at £4O a ton. Mr Fairbrother said that at present plantation owners were hardly paying their way.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1940, Page 5
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