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be 3/. 155. to 5/. per ton, which, after paying for caskage, shipping, &c., 
and allowing 1/. per ton for transport from the plantation to the beach, 
would enable him to place it on the European market at 131. per ton. 
In view of the increasing use of other fats, displacing palm oil in many 
—— the inhabitants of the Colony have to face the probability of 
the price of palm oil ES 154. to 144. per ton, and have the right to 
call upon в their MN to perform its obvious dut uty by putting the 
roads in such a condition as to enable them to transport their produce 
at a reasonable edi and to prevent their staple produce being driven 
from the market to the ruin of their trade. After the manufacture of 
the oil the nuts are still valuable, as they contain the Pise an paim 
kernels. For every ton of palm oil there should be 21 tons of clean 
palm eren and yet we find that the exports of this ьн аге much 
below those of the oil. The direct loss to the Colony is enormous, an 
arises tt the same causes as diminish the export of oil. Machine 
have been invented by Gunnell and others for the purpose of rapi 
are the e but they can never come into general use until it is 
possible i 
. where the oil is extracted, but this might be done on the Coast if it 
were possible to put oi! mills on the plantations or to convey nuts cheaply 
to central mills, and would probably be found more remunerative than 
the siii of the kernels. The average yield of the kernels being 
30 per cent. of their weight in oil, the utilisation of the whole estimated 
crop dd produce 8,700 tons of oil per annum, which at the price of 
cocoa-nut oil ^os it closely resembles) would be werth to the Colony 
over 175,000/. To this must be added the value of the cake after the 
expression of the oil. The brown or black oil made by the process 
now iu use in the country is not worth exporting, as it can be only 
slightly bleached, and is therefore useless for soap-making. 
