Britain Buys Cocoa Crops
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THE Colonial Office at the end of Sep tember announced the purchase by Britain of the whole of the forth coming cocoa crops of the British Col onies of Gold Coast, Nigeria and West Africa. A cocoa control board is being set up to administer the scheme.
Equal treatment will be extended to producers in the French colonies which have adhered to the Free French move ment and while plans are being settled, the British Government, to provide an immediate resumption of trade in the French Cameroons, is buying 12,000 tons of cocoa as far as possible from stocks of the last crop, 4,500 tons being shipped to Britain immediately.