Samoan Cocoa
p. 60 · Read in the full issue
Growers Want Bonus from N. Zealand
From Our Own Correspondent.
Apia, Nov. 15.
THE markets for copra and cocoa in England and America show no im provement, and, in spite of the approach ing Xmas season, the local cocoa market has not been relieved of any noticeable quantities.
Suggestions have been made that New Zealand, which has quite a large cocoa and chocolate manufacturing industry, should step in and give some kind of pre ference to Samoan cocoa beans, in the same way as, for instance, the Austra lian Government is doing in regard to cocoa beans and rubber from the Man dated Territory of New Guinea and Papua. In those Territories a subsidy in the form of a bonus is paid to the produ cers for all produce imported into Aus tralia.
New Zealand should feel some moral obligation to help the threatened primary producers of Samoa —the territory under its mandate. It could take a considerable portion, if not most, of the Samoan cocoa crop, which this year up to date already amounts to about 1200 tons and should, by the end of the current year, reach the record figure of over 1300 tons.