WESTERN Samoa’s ’ Christmas
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Samoa—Pacific’S
Most
Prosperous Territory
Apia Dec 31
WESTERN Samoa’s ’ Christmas
trade this year constitutes anr all-time record —the combined: result of exporting, during 1953,5 11,000 tons of copra, 3,650 tons ofl cocoa (at very high prices), andfc bigger shipments of bananas to NZ.; Prospects are very good. Cocoas prices are moving up—£33s Stg. pen ton is to-day’s quote—and we ex pect that the BMOF price for copras in 1954 will rise by 10 per cent;, while the Union SS Co. now* promises us a fortnightly ship fon our bananas to New Zealand. if The Rev. D. E. and Mrs. Ure ofi the London Missionary Society left!
Port Moresby on December 9 fon leave in Australia.