Samoan Cocoa And
p. 19 · Read in the full issue
Bananas
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, Sept. 13. rIS season a good cocoa crop is exnected and prospects for higher prices seem much brighter in view of inquiries from Australia and USA.
Banana shipments to NZ still are effected by irregular shipping facilities, though these are expected to improve during the next few months. One out let for Samoan produce that benefits growers is Pago Pago, which absorbs large quantities .of local-grown fruit, etc.
The death took place in Sydney as the result of a motor accident in September of Mr. L. S. Cumming, who was well known in the timber trade in Fiji. Mr.
Cumming had travelled extensively in the Pacific, and as recently as July, showed some of his colour-films of Tahiti, Samoa, and other territories before members of the Pacific Islands Society.