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[?]ss Trochus, But [?]gher [?]turns for Fiji

lOUGH exports of trochus from ►Fiji last year fell by 115 tons to a total of 267 tons, the value Iby £14,564 to a post-war peak 552,763. [ 1953, the average export value Fiji trochus was £lOO a ton. t year the average was up to 110/-. hough actual production fell [year, it did not fall as much as [figures suggest, as a quantity shell went to the local button pry and was exported as finished ions, no exact details of which ear in the latest Trade Report, lirprisingly, France was the my’s best trochus customer last , taking over £20,000 worth. The led States took the smallest order 745 worth. iiough Japan took only £6,000 th, it is believed that much of industry’s present prosperity be attributed to high Japanese