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 quotation*.

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

Trochus Shell

No sales have been reported since January, when small parcels changed hands at £llO per ton. Nominal quotations obtained in mid- February indicate that the market is unchanged at that figure.

Coffee

No purchases are permitted without the consent of the Tea and Coffee Control Board, to 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 quotation* 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 i/6 per lb. c.i.f. stg.

Cotton

Government controlled. Stocks being made available to manufacturers at following rates;— For spinning and weaving yarns, 14V 2 d. per lb.; cordage making, per lb ; condenser yam, 12d 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 £199 per ton. ”D” Class, £135 per ton.