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Cocoa Crop
I severe dry spell of weather roke in Western Samoa in ctober, and good rains ihed plantations.
November a prolific cocoa crop being harvested which may [up for the failure of the 1956 cocoa crop due to adverse er conditions. it of the new crop will be id at beginning of next year. \ quotations for first grade E beans are £5.220 per ton ana shipments for export to Zealand are still far short quotas allocated to Western I and of last year’s exports [ing nearly 40,000 cases per ng the second half of 1956, I exports averaged only 10,000 per month.— Apia Corres -11.
I [result of the recent transfer i O. Dare from the post of I Secretary. Cook Islands istration, to that of Resident) issioner, Niue, and the pro [of Mr. L. K. Pitt from the of Treasurer to Official iry, Mr. J. S. Stubbs now is Acting Treasurer, Cook K Administration.
Nicholls (signing register) and Miss [?] who were married at the LMS [?] Moresby, on November 8.
Photo: Papuan Prints.