Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1950Vol. XX, No. 8

Rise In Fiji Troghus

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TROCHUS shell was quoted at £6O a long ton on the beach at Suva on Feb ruary 22—an increase of £lO a ton. (When Fiji’s trochus market was started about 40 years ago the exporters paid the Fijians £3 a ton.) The demand for trochus shell has been irregular since World War II when Japan and Czechoslovakia went out of the pearl button business.

The new Fiji price compares favourably with late quotations for Thursday Is, trochus, the f.o.b. price of which has been between £A6S-70.

New Guinea shell has been bringing about £A6S c.i.f. Sydney.

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