KING COCONUT.
To the average person, a coconut is only a coconut, providing an occasional I -delicacy, to be eaten either raw or in a j cake, pie or candy, but there are part? j of the world where the coconut tree is the producer of almost all the necessities, of life. Staple food, drinks, utensils, clothing and shelter are garnered from this unprepossessing fruit of the South Seas, and the islanders cf those regions are perfectly happy with a menu of coconut, coconut and coconut three times daily. Children of the tropics eat a strange candy made from part of the sprouted coconut, which bulges into the centre of the fruit and absorbs the meat and milk. This is a tender tit-bit. Aside from its local uses in the tropics, the coconut is of great importance in the world's commerce as a source of copra, the dried coconut meat, from which coconut oil is obtained for cdiblo fat, and for mo in eoap-making.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 238, 9 October 1933, Page 5
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164KING COCONUT. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 238, 9 October 1933, Page 5
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