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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1959Vol. XXIX, No. 8

Trade is Good

p. 67 · Read in the full issue

[?] o Tourists, But NG Trade is Good

ncreased production and better ces for some commodities, especi f copra, meant an increase of lost £1,000,000 in Papua-New inea exports in the three months led September, 1958. ’igures released in February show t exports for the period totalled 165,146 compared with £2,714,940 the same period of the previous r. he Territory’s total overall trade ing the three months amounted £8,016,500, compared with 71,327 in the same period of previous year. opra exports in the three months ;a 11 e d 267,060 hundredweight, th £921,843 compared with 170,853 idredweight, worth, £516,038, in same period last year.