No More Robusta Coffee
pp. 25-26 · Read in the full issue
In New Caledonia
prom our Own correspondent xrnrnvnrA i„r,a in T , TrTlPn „_ .. NOUMEA, June 10.
A BITTER blow for New Caledonian I\. coffee planters is the announcement by Noumea traders that they are finding it so difficult to sell Robusta coffee overseas that, as from July 1, they are obliged to suspend purchases.
The American Army’s local demand is also for Arabica coffee only. This is a finer—indeed, an excellent—quality.
Mr. S. Bennett, manager in the Cook Islands for A. B. Donald, Ltd., and Euro pean member of the Rarotonga Island Council, will leave the Cook Islands at the end of the year. He will act as the company’s island inspector in place of Mr. H. H. Hemus, who has been well known in the Eastern Pacific for 40 years and is now due to retire.