Bananas Up—Copra Down
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Planters" Life in Samoa
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Feb. 15.
AFTER the very adverse weather con ditions of January. Western Samoa is enjoying a period of quiet sun shine and warmth.
Owing to the complete loss of the com ing cocoa crop, cocoa planters are in bad straits. Four recently gave up their holdings.
During the week of rain and floods in January, one plantation in the hills near Apia measured no less than 80.88 inches.
This was Tapatapao plantation (N.Z.R.E.).
The hurricane destroyed so many banana crops in Fiji, Tonga and Raro tonga that the New Zealand Govern ment quotas for banana shipments from Western Samoa have been raised. The last “Maui Pomare” took 7,700 cases; the ‘‘Matua”, leaving to-day. lifts 8,000 cases; while the following “Matua” will prob ably lift 10,000 cases for New Zealand.