Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 16 December 1947Vol. XVIII, No. 5

Cocoa Boom Continues

p. 38 · Read in the full issue

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From Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Nov. 6.

WESTERN SAMOA’S cocoa boom is continuing; latest offers for cocoa beans are £230 per ton.

The Norwegian ship “Thor I” has just left here with 450 tons of cocoa for the San Francisco market, valued at over

£Loo,Ooo.

Owing to a shortage of Samoan food stuffs on one hand, and the high prices of cocoa and copra on the other hand, the export of bananas to New Zealand from Western Samoa has decreased ap preciably the last “Matua” taking only 6,000 instead of the usual 9-10,000 cases.

The export of dri-dated bananas has also fallen off.

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