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 quotations obtained in mid-December 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, :o 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 Labe! 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 Vz por lb.

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, 14V2d. per lb.; cordage making, ll 3 /id. per lb.; condenser yarn.

L2d per lb.

Ivory Nuts

No firm quotations available.

Rice

No quotations.

Green Snail Shell

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

Pearl Shell

Government-controlled price:— “B” Class, £2OO per ton. “C” Class. £ 190 jer ton. “D” Class. £135 per ton.