More Cocoa, Less Copra
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From W. Samoa
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, October 20.
AMOAN cocoa planters are harvesting a splendid cocoa crop and large quantities of cocoabeans are already stored in Apia sheds ready for shipment to England and the USA.
It is predicted that this year’s cocoa exports will be a record and amount to well over 3,000 tons.
The f.o.b. prices offered recently from UK and USA range between £224 and £240 Stg. per ton.
Copra exports this year will
probably show a smaller total than last year’s.
At present there are approxi mately 5,000 tons on hand at Apia sheds awaiting shipment after the Nairnbank lifted about 1,300 tons for the British Ministry of Food last week.
Two more Bank liners are ex pected shortly to lift several thousand tons of copra, for the UK and New Zealand, and it is hoped to clear Apia sheds before the end of the year.
Miss Jeanine Tarte, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Tarte, of Taveuni, Fiji, was married in Mel bourne, on October 20, to Mr. V. G.
Barn den, of Sydney.