Islands Produce

Cocoa

Official prices for New Hebrides cocoa beans, controlled by the Cocoa, Chocolate and Confec tionery Committee, are as follows:— Buying: £41/10/- per ton, f.o.b. Island port.

Selling; Delivered Sydney, Melbourne or Hobart, £63/5/- per ton.

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

New Guinea cocoa beans: No quotations.

Western Samoa: Last sale reported, 1st quality, £80 (f.o.b., Apia).

Trochus Shell

Many small parcels have changed hands dur ing recent months. Nominal obtained In mid-November indicate that the present price stands at £119/10/- 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: Arabics, £104 per ton (c.i.f.

Sydney). Robusta, £83/10/- per ton (c.i.f.

Sydney).

Mysore: £240 (C. & f. Sydney).

New Guinea and Papua: £112 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 Va per lb.

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:— Por spinning and weaving yarns, 14%d. per lb.; cordage making, ll 3 Ad. per lb.; condenser yam, I2d. per lb.

Ivory Nuts

No firm Quotations available.

Rice

No quotations.

Green Snail Shell

F.a.q., £110 per ton, In store, Sydney.

Pearl Shell

Government-controlled price;— “B” Class, £200 per ton. “C” Class, £190 per ton. “D” Class, £135 per ton.