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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1949Vol. XIX, No. 8

Samoan Products For

p. 68 · Read in the full issue

America

Apia, Feb. 24.

THE Swedish steamer “Parakoola” left Apia on February 21 for Vancouver with a cargo of 2,335 tons of copra, sold to the Canadian Government, and a small lot of 43 tons of cocoa beans.

The Norwegian steamer “Thor 1” is ex pected shortly to lift a further consign

ment of cocoa for the American market, which will somewhat relieve the present accumulation of cocoa beans in Apia sheds.

Mr. William R. Cahill, after spending several months in Brisbane and Sydney, has returned to his plantation “Wagol,”

Madang, New Guinea. Mrs. Cahill will return home in March. Their son Ken is now a medical student at Brisbane

University.