Fluctuating Prices for NG Peanuts
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NG Peanuts
AFTER bringing only 1/- ner pound or little more on the Australian market In late Jan uary, some consignments of New Guinea peanuts in shell rose to 1/6 per pound in March and large kernels were bringing as much as 2/- per pound, ex wharf, Sydney.
But these prices were by no means thlms y elve®°luc\y m t?°get r 1/7fflSg kernels andl// in shell Pricesfor “owe? SheU dr ° PPed t 0 S/ ‘ and ciiiuwcx.
The top prices were unexpected.
They were in the nature of a rare windfall in the last few weeks be
fore the bulk of the new Queens land crop reached the market. At least one Sydney confectionery factory had received some new season Kingaroys late in March.
Large quantities of peanuts were on the market early April—See Islands Produce, last page, this issue.
II The first party of wives and chil dren of men of the Ist Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, left Fiji for Malaya at end of March, to occupy the married quarters re cently built there for the Battalion.
Adi Laisa, wife of Major Ratu Penaia Ganilau, was one of the party and she was accompanied by her daughter, Adi Mei Kainona, the tiny girl who presented a bouquet to the Queen when she stepped ashore at Suva on December 17 last year.