"Banana-Figs"
p. 44 · Read in the full issue
W. Samoa Manufactures
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, March 4.
THE New Zealand Government-owned Reparation Estates have recently started the production here of “banana-figs” for the NZ market. They are reported to be of excellent quality and in demand in New Zealand.
Already Estates plan to erect, in addi tion to their present establishment at Vailele, a new factory at Malifanua, on the west coast of Upolu, for the produc tion of the figs.
A large quantity of bananas, which would ordinarily be unsuitable for the NZ market, are utilised in the manufac ture of the new product and this should stimulate fresh banana cultivation.
There is an increased demand for desic cated coconut at present, also, and Reparation Estates intend doubling pro duction at the factory at Malifanua. (Ed. Note: What are “banana-figs”?
Our correspondent does not say. Pre sumably, it is some banana preparation Planter readers of “PIM” would be in terested in this new enterprise in Western Samoa.)