Islands Produce
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(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are In Australian currency)
Copra
Papua-NG.— Copra Marketing Board price; Main ports. Hot-air, £7O/5/- per ton; PMS, £69/5/-; Smoked, £6B/5/- I y n d , n /?L Crushers pay: Plantation Hot-air, * ™ s - £ 90/15/-; Smoked. £ 90/2/6. Australia has a 9 years’ UK contract (based on £Stg.s9/15/-, 1952).
Fiji-—At Suva and Levuka, 1952; Plan- Sfi°f/n/« Grade . (6 ° points an d over) pe T r ton; FM S (45-57% points), £F64/15/-; Lower Grades £P63/10/-.
Samoa.— MOP contract is at £65 Stg per ton Western Samoa; producers re ceive about £lO less.
* are now receiving laS/i 1 ?/" P? r .. ton ’ J delivered Honiara or delivered Yandina under the UK’s MOP contract.
Tahiti.—Price for Papeete copra in k?o S (fSw/ e t 0: ? ry ’ 7 80 Pac ‘ frs ‘ P er s in Po Ass i 4/ " per long ton) : Su P er dry, long ton,'. Per k “° < £A5B /11/- per COCOA.—lslands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W tVJ ICa 2.’ J quotation (from Colyer Watson Ltd Sydney) for which on Aug. 1 was £ l tg- -fi 6s (£ A331/5/-) c.i.f. Cont. ports.
Pacific cocoa was quoted in August at - N.G.—£A34O approx, per ton, ex wharf, Sydney.
New Hebrides.—Marseilles recently quoted: Superior, 295-310 M. fr. per kilo (approx. £ A3Bl-£ A4OO per long ton) • £A e Sl%f^ 27o M ; fr - per kil ° (ap P ro^: £A336-£A34B per long ton), in bond.
Samoa.—Sydney agents in August quoted Samoan cocoa at £S2BO (£A3SO) f.o.b. per ton, first grade. (Samoan currency equals Stg.). * COFFEE.—lslands prices are based on Uganda Arabica, currently £AS6O per ton c.i.f. Australian ports.
Papua-NG.—lst grade, approx. 7/- per lb. ex wharf Sydney (£789 per ton).
New Caledonia.—Crop mainly exported 37R Sr Marse j l !f s recently quoted: /> a , im M * fr - P er kll °- ex-store (£A4BS - per long ton).
RUBBER.— Australian Rubber Pool quo tation (Aug. 1) for Papua-NG: 24%d stg : per lb., c.i.f., Sydney (30%d Aust.) —Papuan rubber is allowed in primage free (10 per cent, from elsewhere).
Singapore rate (used by Australian firms as basis for buying Papuan rubber) August!: No. 1 grade RSS (sellers), spot, 88%c. lb., c.i.f. (33 8/9d Aust. lb.).
VANILLA BEANS.—Sydney quotation (by Victor Karp, Tulk & Co.): White Label 19/-, Yellow, 19/-, Green, 18/- per lb c.i.f., Sydney.
RlCE.—Rice shipped from Sydney to Islands was fixed in October, 1951, at £75 per ton, f.0.b., White, Unpolished and Hrown. (On plantation Papua-NG approx.
Desiccated Coconut. Sydney
agents quote Ceylon. 1/3 lb. spot de liyered to store. Sydney. New Guinea: 2/5 y 2 lb. spot, delivered in store, Sydney.
PEARL SHELL.—Prices fixed between Torres Strait producers and Otto Gerdau Co. (USA) for 1952 are; AA/A/B grades
85 cents lb. (£ABSO approx, per lc t®?); c - 80c. /lb. (£A800); D, 55c. (£ASSO); E, 40c. lb. (£A400); EE 2 lb. (£A3OO) all c.i.f., New Yo Cook Is.—US quotation for Manih blackhp: Ready sale at 35 cents U.S lb. (£A3SO per long ton), c.&f R a tonga.
TROCHUS SHELL.—Buyers’ interest Trochus livened during late July-ea August and demand exceeded supt New Hebrides.—Recent sales in Sydney approx. £ A 95, delivered. NG. BSI Sydney agents quote £95-£lOO per t
‘Sj™ Snail Shell.-Nomina
£ 15</10/- per ton, on wharf, Sydney.
London Prices
London, June 12
Copra, c.i.f., Continental Ports, ton New Hebrides, Metrop. frs. nominal 71,( Tahiti, Metrop. frs. nominal .. 72 < FM Straits/DEI £64/5/- S Ceylon, FMS, nominal £7O S Philippines, bulk, July-August . $l6O Coconut Oil, c.i.f. ton:— FM Straits £97 S Ceylon, July-August £9l s Philippines (afloat) $231V 2 ‘ Cocoa, Stg.:— Accra, Oct.-Dec. 277/6 (sellers) per kilos, c.i.f. Nth. Continental Ports.
„ London, July 25
Copra, c.i.f., Continental Ports, ton Philippines, Aug./Sept $135 1 FM Straits £6l/10/- S Ceylon, FMS £7O S : Indonesian been off market for t' months (lastc price, 65 guilders per 1 kilos); expected sellers re-enter mark in near future.
Whale Oil.—Norway & Holland, £72/lC Stg. ton ex tank, Continent; Germar £75-£BO Stg. ton, c.i.f., Hamburg.