Produce Prices
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Unless otherwise stated, quotations are Australian currency. Aust. $ equals roximately 8/- Stg., NZ, or W. Samoa; Fiji; 10/- Tonga; 5.381 Ceylon lees; 98 Pac. Frs.; 5U51.125.)
Copra
APUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production delivered to Copra Marketing Board, trolled by six members, including three iters’ representatives. The board directs ribution and sales, and makes pay its to the producers. Production goes nly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) Aus ia for local consumption, (c) crushing in Rabaul, and (d) Japan (surplus ivailable). Prices generally tally with ig rate in Philippines with premiums hot-air dried. ■NG Board’s purchase prices for copra rered main ports from March 1 were air dried, $l2O per ton; FMS, $ll7 ton; smoke-dried, $ll5 per ton. [JI: —The Fiji Coconut Industry Board 5 the prices to be paid for Fiji a on a formula based on that for ippines copra, and taking into account ;ht, taxes, selling costs, shrinkage.
The copra must be graded at centres Suva, Levuka, Lautoka, Savusavu and mni. Prices in Suva to Apr. 30 were: ie one, £FS4/15/-; grade two, 19/17/6 and grade three, £F42. ale of deductions has been established copra delivered to grading centres r than Suva.
BSTERN SAMOA: Official Copra d takes all production, sells same makes payments to producers. It mainly to Abels Ltd., NZ crushers, the open market. Local price re ly was £NZS6/12/6 grade one, INGA: All copra is sold to the Tongan a Board which sends it to Europe, r arrangement with Unilever, con- Jd by Philippines prices, and the rest on to the open market. (LOMON IS.: All production marketed