Samoa Ships Cocoa, Copra
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But Few Bananas
Price of Cocoa still Rising
Apia, May 26.
SMALL lots of Samoan cocoa beans have recently been sold at a fob Apia price of £290-£315 Samoan per ton.
Several hundreds of tons of cocoa were recently shipped by Nairnbank and Tofua; Nairnbank also lifted a full cargo of 3,000 tons of copra for the British MOF. Clydebank, ex pected to arrive in early July, will load 3,500 tons of copra which should completely clear Apia sheds.
The May Tofua took 5,200 cases, of bananas to New Zealand less than 1,000 of which went from Tonga, Niue and Fiji. It is expected that with the approaching breadfruit season, fewer bananas will be con sumed locally and that more will be available for export to NZ.
The Tofua carried 800 cases of Samoan grapefruit to the Dominion where the acute shortage of bananas and citrus fruit has created a ready demand.
A son (John Alexander) was born at Rabaul hospital on May 27 to Mr. and Mrs. A. Savage, of Rabaul,