Visitors To Samoa Buy

Lavishly

WESTERN Samoa’s boom-time has created an export trade that is not favoured by the Administration.

The high price now being paid for cocoa beans (which Western Samoa sells mostly to the United States) has given the Terri tory a healthy dollar balance. Imported goods are in greater supply there than in other Pacific territories and passengers and crews of ships calling there, buy lavishly.

The Administration states that they do not want to be unreasonable about it, and that they have no objection to small Quantities of goods being taken for per sonal use, but that they do object to the large quantities of clothing, cigarettes and canned food at present being taken out of the country. If it persisted, Western Samoa would be short of supplies for local residents.

Mr. F. W. J. Plucknett, of Fiji, left the Colony in June for the United Kingdom where he will spend six months furlough.