Turtle Shell Booms In
p. 10 · Read in the full issue
Fiji
SUCH has been the phenomenal rise in the price of turtle shell in Fiji, that the editor of the “Fiji Times” has decided to discontinue quoting it in his commercial columns. The nominal price is 3/6 per pound; but overseas troops in the Colony have created so great a demand for tortoiseshell articles that good quality turtle-shell is sold for as much as £5 per pound.
In spite of high costs, the demand for tortoiseshell ware in Fiji is still far ahead of supplies.