Samoan Produce
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From Our Own Correspondent APIA, December 1.
THE cocoa crop is still being picked, though the heavy rains, occasioning bad roads on the plantations, interfere somewhat with the bringing in of the pro duct. While the export of cocoa in 1935 has been below the average, as most of the incoming crop can appear only in the export figures for 1936, copra figures for 1935 are much ahead of those of former years. So far about 12,500 tons of copra have been exported this year.
Within two weeks of each other the banana steamers are calling for shipments, the Maui Pomare on the 4th and the Limerick on the 14th. There seems to be a sufficiency of fruit available and for the first time the island of Savaii is given the chance to participate in the banana ship ments, as a boat load of a few hundred cases will be brought over from the Paasa leleaga district for shipment by the Maui Pomare.
Captain L. C. Shoppee, who has been connected with gold-seeking activities in the Morobe district (New Guinea) during the past few years, arrived in Sydney by the Montoro on December 18, accom panied by his wife.