Samoan Banana Quotas
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Increased
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, Sept. 22.
INURING September, quotas for banana shipments from Western Samoa to New Zealand have been considerably in creased. The Maui Pomare on September IB took 7,719 cases, while the Matua on the 24th is expected to load 8,900 cases.
This makes a total of 16,619 cases for which £4,150 will be paid to banana growers.
Mrs. G. C. Holmes, who for over 20 years had lived in various parts of New Guinea, died at Kavieng early in Sep
tember, after a long illness. Arriving
from the Solomons in 1913, she lived for a time at Numa Numa (Bougainville), before going to Lindenhafen and Rabaul.
She is survived by Mr. Holmes and their two children, Heather and Geoffrey.