Up-grade
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Samoa’s Trade Is On the Up-grade
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, March 4.
TRADE in Western Samoa is definitely on the up-grade with better copra and cocoa prices.
At the end of 1935, Apia produce sheds were filled to overflowing with copra and cocoa, owing to a lack of transport facil
ities towards the end of the year. But up to the end of February, 1936, altogether 2,200 tons of copra, 500 tons of cocoabeans and 20 tons of rubber were shipped, while about 19,000 cases of bananas went to New Zealand by four steamers.
At present the Flood liner Noumea is loading another 1,000 tons of copra and 10 tons of cocoa, while the Nordic is expected to lift a large consignment of produce about the middle of March.
Bright prospects are also evinced by the import figure. Up to the end of February over 1,400 tons of merchandise had been imported.