Exports

All-Time High In Samoan

From Our Own Correspondent

T Apia, Nov. 19.

HE month of November promises to be an all-time record for exports from Western Samoa.

An American ship, “Alabaman,” which on November 8 with a 770-ton ship ment of cocoa-beans is clear evidence of how the local cocoa industry has been stimulated by the high prices now paid for Samoan cocoa-beans—they bring from £9O to £95 f.o.b. Apia.

Total value of the goods lifted from Apia by the “Alabaman” is estimated at

£Loo,Ooo.

The “Maui Pomare,” which left on November 14, lifted only a small ship ment of bananas for the New Zealand market; 2,500 cases were ready for ship ment but 500 cases were left behind for want of shipping space which was re served for bananas from Niue Island, her next port of call.

The “Matua,” which arrived here yes terday, is at present loading a shipment of about 9,000 cases of bananas.

Another American steamer is expected before the end of the month to lift ad ditional shipments of copra and cocoa beans.

Mr. H. E. Maude, who has filled nearly every senior office in the Western Pacific High Commission in the last seven years, has gone to Tarawa to act as Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, during the absence of Colonel V.

Fox-Strang ways. He is accompaiiied by Mrs. Maude.