Bananas and Cocoa to Samoa's

Rescue

From Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Aug. 6.

SINCE the copra market became de pressed, bananas are now more than ever the mainstay of Western Samoa. The quantity exported to New Zealand is at present between 18,000 and 20,000 cases per month.

Cocoa beans help also, though the mar ket price does not leave too much margin of profit. Good quality beans sell locally at around £4O per ton and over.

Mr. G. B. Gallagher, of the Western Pacific High Commission Service, has been appointed Officer in Charge of the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme.