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Trochus Earns Good
Money For Fill
Mouney For Fiji
JI trade statistics for 1955, just published, give no indica tion of the quantity or value exports of finished or partly hed trochus shell products tons) but they do show that as a good year for trochus shell rts, with prices averaging about 6 f.o.b. Suva. le quantity exported, 337 tons, not a record, but the total ings were £F102,988, a post and probably all-time peak. 1954, 267 tons worth £F52,763 average of £FI97/10/- per -were exported, and in the ious year the average price was 0 per ton, though 382 tons were rted. ice 1951, French buyers have n increasing interest in Fiji ius and they were again the hpal clients last year, taking tons worth £F52,571. Other nations were Western Ger -7 (57 tons), Hongkong (50 tons), ralia (36 tons), Japan (15 , and New Caledonia (8 tons). 1 also exported ten tons of ter-of-pearl and sundry shells th £F2,131.
United Nations Broadcasts
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