Cocoa Yields
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Expert Pleased With
Samoan
Apia, May 26.
DURING a recent visit to Western Samoa, Mr. D. H. Urquhart, former Director of Agriculture in the Gold Coast Colony, and an ex pert on cocoa, expressed himself as greatly impressed with the cocoa in dustry in Western Samoa.
Mr. Urquhart will report on his findings to the South Pacific Com mission and is at present visiting American Samoa.
His investigations showed that Samoa had one of the highest yields of cocoa to the acre in the world.
Cocoa yields, on the 1,200 acres of cocoa in bearing on the New Zealand Reparation Estates, average 5 cwt. per acre per year, while yields in other cocoa-producing countries aver age from less than 2 cwt. to 3 cwt. per acre per year.
Mr. Bruce Bacon, Agencies Mana ger for the Islands firm of W. E.
Reed, Sydney, made a business trip to Papua-New Guinea during April- May.