Fiji's Trade
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Increased Gold :: Reduced Banana Crop
THE trade of the Colony of Fiji, for the six months ended June 30 was as follows. The figures for the same six months of 1938 are given, for comparison;
The pricipal changes are accounted for by the fall in the value of copra; the heavy reduction in banana production caused by the rain-storms of March and April; and the steady increase in gold production.
Mrs. Allen Innes. one of the pioneers of the Morobe goldfield in New Guinea, returned to Sydney in September, after a holiday visit to America.
1939. 1938. £ £ Imports 796,417 864,890 Exports Exports in detail — 873,010 874,041 Sugar, tons 25,806 31,121 ,, value £260,700 £287,9*76 Copra, tons 13,383 15,263 „ value £96.660 £140,278 Bananas, bunches . . . . 2,756 9,420 „ cases .. 25,921 70,351 ,, value £12,541 £35,678 Molasses, value £9,194 £7,857 Gold, oz 52,606 44,518 ,. value £430,757 £343,324 Trochus, tons 108 52 „ value £5,032 £3,602