Market changes,
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June-July
Copra steady. Cocoa, Accra up £Stg. 7 h; NG, down £A7i. Coffee, Gold Coast up £Stg.24; NG up 9d-l/per lb. Rubber, Singapore up 28 cents; London up 7d lb. Vanilla, down 17/- lb on March in Papeete.
MOP, Tahiti, £A1,015 per long ton f.o.b. Papeete; Rarotonga, £360 f.o.b.
Trochus, down £5 in Sydney; Noumea paying producers £A357 metric ton.
Greensnail, down £lO in Sydney.
t When the lights were restored in a Suva wharf shed after a tem porary failure, a mysterious gap was observed in a stack of beer cartons. In the early hours of the morning a ship’s officer, inspecting a hold not being worked, discovered three wharf workers plus a number of empty beer bottles. Subsequently one of the three was gaoled for nine months, another for three months, and the third—a late-comer to the party—was fined 5/- for receiving a bottle knowing it to have been stolen, and 5/- for drinking without a liquor permit.
t A Progress Association has bee: formed at Norfolk Island, and it likely that some of its member will be candidates at the July elec tions for the Advisory Council. t Norfolk Island’s tourist trad, (mainly from New Zealand) wr patchy in the early months of th year. There are substantial book ings for the winter, however, an 'accommodation has been great!; improved. The new Guesthous Ordinance prevents overcrowding.