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Pacific Trochus Not Good Enough
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, July 30 MR. Kenneth E. White of Sydney called briefly at Suva and Papeete in July in the course of a world business trip. He had already called on button manufac turers in England, Europe and New York, and on shell producers elsewhere.
European manufacturers, said Mr. White, were very critical of Papua-NG green-snail and trochus, and of some BSI shippers of trochus, who included large per centages of burnt, dead or un cleaned shell.
Compared with Mergui green snail shipped from Singapore, the manufacturers said that the Pacific Islands product was inferior in the matter of cleaning, carrying much waste material that should be chipped off before shipment.
Buyers are reluctant to pay good money for this waste material.
The European manufacturers, said Mr. White, consider that trochus —and other shell —prices are bound to fall next year as the Japanesse production comes onto the world market. (See article p. 115, this issue.)