Islands Produce

Cocoa

Official prices for New Hebrides cocoa beans, controlled by the Cocoa, Chocolate and Confec tionery Committee, are as follows: Buying: £4l/10/- per ton, f.o.b. Island port.

Selling; Delivered Sydney, Melbourne or Hobart, £53/5/- per ton.

Accra: £69/10/- (on wharf, Sydney, all charges paid).

New Guinea cocoa beans: No quotations.

Western Samoa: Last sale reported, Ist quality, £BO (f.0.b., Apia).

Trochus Shell

£llO per ton, tn store Sydney, was quoted in mid-December. Small parcels changed hands earlier in the month at that figure.

Cowrie Shells

Quote No. 1: 2/9 lb. f.o.b. Island port.

Quote No, 2: 2/10 lb. c.i.f. Sydney.

Coffee -

No purchases are permitted without the consent of the Tea and Coffee Control Board, w whom all offers must first be submitted.

Nominal quotations as follows; New Caledonian: Arabica, £Bl per ton (c.i.f.

Sydney). Robusta, £63 per ton (c.i.f. Sydney).

New Hebrides: Robusta, £63/10/- per ton (c.i.f. Sydney), Mysore: £240 (c. & f, Sydney).

New Guinea and Papuan: No firm quotations available.

Java: No quotations.

Vanilla Beans

White Label and Yellow Label, 17/2 per lb. c. & f. Sydney.

Kapok

Market for Javanese kapok has been suspended.

Indian kapok is being quoted for Indent at 1/6 per lb. c.l.f. stg.

Cotton

Government controlled. Stocks being made available to manufacturers at following rates:— For spinning and weaving yarns, 14y 2 d. per lb.; cordage making, 113/ 4 d. per lb.; condenser yam. 13d. per lb.

Ivory Nuts

No firm quotations available.

Rice

No quotations.

Green Snail Shell

F.a.q., £lO3 per ton, in store, Sydney.

Pearl Shell

Government-controlled price:— "B” Class, £2OO per ton. “C” Class £l9O per ton. "D” Class, £135 per ton.