COPRA PLANTATIONS
4 — — IMPROVEMENTS IN NEW GUINEA. Melbourne, January 16. An official report shows that the greater portion of the £960.000 spent bv the Expropriation Board in New Guinea has been devoted to tlie _ improvements of the copra plantations which are now coming into bearing. A previous attempt to dispose of the plantations to private owners failed, and the board suggests that the lands bo again offered, and that failing a sal nothing remains but for the board tcoiitinuo to operate the The value of the several properties is estimated at fully £5,000,000.- —Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 95, 17 January 1924, Page 7
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95COPRA PLANTATIONS Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 95, 17 January 1924, Page 7
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