S amoan Trade Promises
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A Record
Apia, Dec. 3.
rIS year’s figures will show that Samoa’s production and export of cocoa beans will exceed 3,000 tons, while copra exports will exceed 15,000 tons. With cocoa and copra at their present prices, it is apparent that the" value of 1951 exports will reach an all time high—well on towards £1,000,000.
Exports of bananas and desiccated coconut have fallen. Owing to an acute shortage of local food, Samoans have been eating their own bananas; while the price available has not encouraged pro duction of processed coconut.
The APC bore at Hohoro, Pamia, is now down to 9,940 ft.; the IE Go’s, at Omati, is at 8.921 ft. This is about as deep as they go. A third “seismic party” has arrived in Papua and is working in the region between the Turama and Bamu rivers.
Owing to ill health. Mr. A. J.
Smeaton has resigned from the Directorate of Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Ltd., New Guinea. Mr. W.
J. Macgregor has been appointed to the vacancy.