Exports
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Eastern Samoa Copra Exports
A VERAGE gross price realised by Eastern Samoa copra in the 1955-56 financial year was about $l7O per long ton, according to figures recently received.
This price is equivalent to about £Stg.47/10/- or £AS7/10/-. The British Ministry of Food price re ceived by British growers then was £Stg.6s per ton, main Pacific ports.
Exports totalled 2,892,835 lbs, worth $225,789.
This price of £Stg. 47/10/- aver age for the year is almost exactly the same as the average free market price for New Hebrides copra in 1955, but the French Oceania price seems to have averaged about Stg. 59/10/- per long ton (21,900 metric tons worth 228,166,000 Pacific francs), As all French Oceania copra goes to France it is possible that the price receives some Gov ernment support along the lines of the BMF arrangement.
The quantity exported last financial year from Eastern Samoa compares with recent years as fol lows; 1954-55, 2,863,470 lbs; 1953-54, 3,605,649 lbs; 1952-53, 2,184,000 lbs.
$ A former district headman of Tasimboko sub-district, Guadal canal, Sango of Suagi, was fatally injured by a shark in four feet of water recently. Sango was swim ming a raft downstream in the Balasuna river and was attacked
close to the Berande wharf. In attacks the shark severed Sai right arm and right leg. He already dead when pulled from water with a rope. This is the 1 shark fatality in the same this year.