Highest For 10 Years
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Contract Price for American Samoa's 1937 Copra Output
From Our Own Correspondent.
Apia, Apr. 16.
jl/fESSRS. Atkins, Kroll and Company, of San Francisco, has been awarded the contract for the purchase of the whole of the 1937 copra production of Eastern Samoa.
The firm is paying 101.62 dollars per ton, the highest price paid for the copra of American Samoa in over 10 years, and more than double the rate paid to copra growers last year.
The Government pays the natives 3.60 dollars per lOOlbs. for sun dried cofra, and 1.90 dollars per lOOlbs-. for green copra delivered at the Government drier at Futiga. The new prices, which came into effect in February compare favour ably with the prices at present paid by Western Samoan merchants to natives and European producers.