European and Native Production in
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Western Samoa
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, May 20.
BASED on official statistics recently made public, the following is the share of European producers (in cluding the New Zealand Government Reparation Estate) in the total exports of agricultural products in the last cal endar year 1939; — Europeans produced 20.5 per cent, of the exports of copra (2,569 tons, value £22,101); 71 per cent, of cocoa beans (461 tons, value £17,679); 37i per cent, of bananas (77,143 cases, value £28,928); and 100 per cent, rubber (49 tons, value £4,509, all N.Z.R,E.). The total value of European exports is £73,217 or 34.42 per cent, of the total exports. These are 1939 figures; and the low European pro portion of exports is a result of the abnormally small cocoa crop of last year, amounting only to half of normal.
Mr. Philip McKay has taken up duties in the employ of Tavua Gold Mines, Fiji.
He was formerly connected with the well known Wainiloka Estate, Levuka.