Banana Prospects in South
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Pacific
Mr. Harvey Turner, Chair
man of Fruit Distributors Ltd., Auckland, returned there on MV Toiua in mid-September after a sur vey of the banana situation in Samoa and Fiji.
He said that, as far as Samoa is concerned, drought conditions and the high price of copra and cocoa have combined to discourage the planters from growing bananas— -4,000-6,000 cases per month are all that can be expected.
Fiji, on the other hand, had made a great recovery from the hurricane of January, although dry conditions prevailed there also.