Samoa Again Exports Rubber
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From Our Own Correspondent.
APIA, April 12.
AFTER a lengthy interval of several years the export of Samoan plan tation rubber has started again, indicat ing that the rubber industry, abandoned on account of unprofitable prices, is con sidered a paying proposition again. Seven tons of rubber were shipped by the Inverbank recently from the Aleisa rub ber plantation of the New Zealand Reparation Estates.
The natives are still cutting large quantities of copra and Apia sheds are filled to overflowing with the product.
The Inverbank, which left Apia at the end of March, took away a large ship ment of 2,300 tons of copra, over 50 tons of cocoabeans, a small quantity of papain and 75 cases of rubber, all for Con tinental ports. The American steamer Carisso will lift another large shipment of 1,500 tons of copra about the middle of April.
Mr. Henry James Parsons, who had been a resident of Fiji for over six years, died at Tavua on April 4. Late in 1928 he joined the Fiji Department of Public Works and was on the clerical staff until he retired at the middle of last year.