New Hebrides Cocoa
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AUSTRALIAN manufacturers of con fectionery, in their feverish search for cocoa beans in September, after the outbreak of war had cut off their usual supplies, appear to have overlooked tho product of the New Hebrides. They oought New Guinea beans—the producu of a comparatively new industry—and the high-quality beans which come from Samoa, but they did no business with the New Hebrides.
The New Hebrides produce a cocoa bean of high quality and, about 1925, the pro duction of the Condominium was 2,000 tons per annum. Since then, owing ■ various causes, production has declined to less than 1,000 tons per annum. The New Hebrides product is a bean of high quality and practically the whole of the crop always has been sold in France.