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

Strait Pearl-Shell

p. 77 · Read in the full issue

Page 7777

Million Dollars For Torres

IN the nine-months’ pearling season in the Torres Sfrait a haul of £500,000 worth of pearl-shell was made. This will be sold almost exclusively to the United States button trade and is ex pected to bring more than a million dollars to Australia.

Pearls (as distinct from the shell) rea lised about £lO,OOO during the period.

Highest price paid for a single pearl was £BOO for a gem won by one of Burns Philp’s native divers.

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