Western Samoa and Its Dollars
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Its Dollars
From Our Own Corresponded.
APIA, June 12. I FOLLOWING representations by European elected members of? the Legislative Assembly of Western Samoa, the Govern-] ment has released additional] dollars to the equivalent of i £5tg.42,500 for the importation of goods from hard currency areas. £5tg.24,500 of this amount will be used for motor vehicles and spare! parts and the balance for other] essential goods.
Total dollar-allocations for 1953 are £152,500, or 57 per cent, of I Western Samoa’s dollar earnings in 1952.
In the last five years, Western] Samoa has exported goods to the] total of £Stg. 1,286,674 to dollar j countries, and has imported from dollar countries goods to the value] of £5tg.1,035,064. (I Mrs. A. Strotter, former lessee of] the Rarotonga Hotel, and more re-| cently of New Zealand, went to Apia! in May to take over the manage-J ment of the “Cool Corner” Cafe. I