Show industry overdone the development of the coconut oil industry in the philippines has been very rapid due to war conditions tiie the exports of oil in 1918 amounted to tons toils is as compared with tons toils in 1917 1017 and tons in 1930 1916 I 1 there Is a scarcity of shipping to take copra to hull england and marseilles trance france chich are tile the great centers for oil crushing hence it Is found more profitable to still the less bulky balky oil to the united states A number of new oil mills have been constructed in the philippines in order to fill the demand for oil but it Is a serious question whether the ent crushing capacity ot of tile the philippine mills is not in excess of the normal supply of copra I 1 |