Record High
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W. Samoa's Exports At Record High
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Feb. 10.
FGURES released recently by the Gov ernment show that total exports from Western Samoa during the calendar year 1947 will be over two million pounds in value. Total value for 1946 was £1,197,745 and for 1945, £1 029 206 increase is due mainly to the higher price being paid in world markets for cocoa and copra but quantities ex ported have also increased, copra rising from 13,795 tons in 1946 to 18,181 tons in 1947; and cocoa beans from 1,886 tons in 1946 to 2,378 tons in 1947.
Rubber exports, however, fell from 80 tons to 25 tons probably due to the recent low price being paid for rubber.
It is of interest to note that, for the first time, the value of dried bananas exported exceeded value of fresh bananas. „ United Kingdom took the bulk of the copra and United States the bulk of the cocoa beans. New Zealand took all the bananas (fresh and dried), rubber and desiccated coconut.
Another point of interest was that 163 pounds of papain (product of the paw paw) were exported to the United States.
Its value was £193. -