QUEENSLAND COPRA.
INDUSTRY EXTENDING. Cocoakut cultivation, though still a small industry in Queensland, is rapidly extending. Hitherto it had been supposed that copra from Queensland cocoanuts did not contain enough oil to be of commPi-cial value, but the examination of a sample of copra from these nuts at the Imperial Institute has now established that the oil content is normal, and the copra of good quality, and brokers state that shipments would be readily salable at good prices It is interesting to note that before the war the bulk of the copra shipped to Europe from Ceylon, India, and elsewhere was crushed in Germany and France. Urgent representations on this subject were made by the Imperial Institute on the outbreak if war to the oil-seed crushing firms in the United Kingdom, some of whom have now started to work copra with the result that there is a new and good market for tho product in Britain, which is likely to expand when the new factories now building start work.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16214, 27 April 1916, Page 8
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