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

Many small parcels have changed hands dur ing recent months. Nominal quotationseobtained in mid-November indicate that the present price stands at £ll9/10/- per ton.

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, £lO4 per ton (c.i.f.

Sydney). Robusta, £B3/10/- per ton (c.i.f.

Sydney).

Mysore: £240 (c. & f. Sydney).

New Guinea and Papua: £ll2 per ton (c.i.f. e.).

Java: No quotations.

Vanilla Beans

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

Kapok

Market for Javanese kapok is falling. There are only two or three sellers, and no buyers at all, and is selling at 2/1% per lb.

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

Cotton

Government controlled. Stocks being ' made available to manufacturers at following rates>- For spinning and weaving yarns, 14%d. per lb.; cordage making, ll%d. per lb.; condenser yarn, 12d. per lb.

Ivory Nuts

No firm quotations available.

Rice

No quotations.

Green Snail Shell

p.a.q., £llO per ton, in store, Sydney.

Pearl Shell

Government-controlled price;— ”B” Class, £2OO per ton. "O” Class, £l9O per ton. ”D” Class, £135 per ton.