"Banana Figs"
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From Our Own Correspondent APIA. June 1.
Banana figs, which are now exported in increasing quantities from Western Samoa, and find a ready market in New Zealand, are ripe bananas, halved lengthways and dried in a hot air drier.
They are similiar in appearance and taste to dried figs or dates, and are put up in attractive cellophane wrappers in 1 lb. lots.
Samples of this valuable food product, which at present is manufactured by the Government-owned New Z-ealand Repara tion Estates, have gone forward to Eng land in order to explore the possibilities of an English market.