Seven Apia Debutantes Who Were Presented to Cardinal Gilroy
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[ About 300 boats were engaged in ihe trochus fisheries of the north md west coasts of New Caledonia ast year. The export value of the ihell was about 40,000 Pacific francs I metric ton, with quantities sold 0 Japan at up to 55,000 francs
(£A3BS a long ton approximately).
Production rose from 578 to 880 metric tons, worth 33,000,000 Pacific francs. t New Caledonia imported 2,231 tons of rice last year, 742 tons from Aus
tralia, at a total of 26,700,000 Pacific francs (£A365,000). Local rice pro duction totalled only tons in spite of a subsidy of about 6 francs a kilo to make production costs competitive with the imported pro duct.
These Apia girls were among the debutantes who were presented to Cardinal Gilroy at a ball held during the Cardinal's recent visit to samoa. They are (left to right): Misses chritina Swanney, Marie krus Mary Betham, Bertha Adams, Emma Kmma Krause, Teresa Ah Soon, Photo by R, F. Rankin.