N.G. Cocoa-Beans In
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Europe
ROWERS of cocoa-beans, in the Islands, will be Interested to learn of an experiment made recently by a New Guinea grower.
He sent a small consignment of beans to Germany, and he now has been ad vised, by a Hamburg firm, under date of February 14, that the quality of the beans is regarded as good. The quality is simi lar to that of the Trinidad cocoa-bean, and the New Guinea consignment is valued at 35/- per cwt., ex wharf, sold in bond.
The consignor, however, was informed that, owing to serious import restrictions, it was not possible to sell the beans in Germany, but that it would be possible to sell them in England, where there were not so many “restrictions and difficulties.”
Mr. R. G. Edwards recently arrived in Western Samoa from New Zealand to take over from Mr. W. Blennerhassett the managership of the Apia branch of the Bank of New Zealand. Mr. Blennerhassett returned to Auckland by the April Mari posa.