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From Our Own Correspondent.
APIA, June 4.
THE “Maui Pomare” lifted 6,600 cases of bananas on June 1. The fruit was of excellent quality.
With the present unsatisfactory copra price, the cocoa market unsettled and prospects uncertain, bananas seem to be the mainstay of Samoan agricultural production. While bananas delivered by European producers are of superior quality, Samoan producers are not keeping upi to the high standard of former shipments, and rejections are common in consequence.
The copra price to natives in outside districts is ½-cent per lb. The whole sale price is £5 per ton delivered to Apia. Cocoa is from £40 to £50 per ton and 4 cents per lb. is paid to native producers for small quantities of sun dried.