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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 July 1944Vol. XIV, No. 12

Fiji Buying Prices

p. 45 · Read in the full issue

Suva, June 15 THE following, taken from the “Fiji Times,” shows the prices current in Suva on the ■date mentioned. The prices, of course, are *iven in Fiji currency, which is 12Va per cent, below sterling, and 12Va per cent, above Aus tralian.

Copra (FMS Grade) £lB Copra (Plantation Grade) £l9/10/- Coconut Charcoal, per ton £l2 Copra Sacks, each 2/- Kerosene, per gal 3/4 Flour, per sack 25/9 Flour, 5 lb 1/- Sharps, per sack 24/6 Sharps, 5 lb 1/- Barbed Wire £5O Pearl Shell, per ton £l4 Beche-de-mer (best quality) about lb. .. 6d.

Beche-de-mer (raw fish) about lb 4d.

Turtle Hooves, per lb 3d.