Produce Prices
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uless otherwise stated, quotations are .nstralian currency. Aust. S equals iximately 8/- Stg., NZ, or W. Samoa; Fiji 1 Pa’anga Tonga; 5.381 Ceylon es; 98 Pac. Frs.; 5U51.125.)
Copra
PUA-NEW GUINEA;—AII production divered to Copra Marketing Board, oiled by six members, including three ers’ representatives. The board directs bution and sales, and makes pay s to the producers. Production goes ly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) Aus i for local consumption, (c) crushing in Rabaul, and (d) Japan (surplus rallable). Prices generally tally with 5 rate in Philippines with premiums tot-air dried.
IG Board’s purchase prices for copra sred main ports from March 1 were ir dried, $l2O per ton; FMS, $ll7 ;on; smoke-dried, $ll5 per ton. ri:—The Fiji Coconut Industry Board the prices to be paid for Fiji , on a formula based on that for jpines copra, and taking into account it, taxes, selling costs, shrinkage, The copra must be graded at centres iva, Levuka, Lautoka, Savusavu and uni. Prices in Suva to June 26 were: e one, £FS3; grade two, £F4B/2/6 grade three £F4O/5/-. A scale of ;tions has been established for copra ;red to grading centres other than ISTERN SAMOA; Official Copra i takes all production, sells same makes payments to producers. It mainly to Abels Ltd., NZ crushers, the open market. Local price re -7 was £NZS6/12/6 grade one.
NGA: All copra is sold to the Tongan i Board which sends it to Europe, : arrangement with Unilever, con d by Philippines prices, and the rest on to the open market.
LOMON IS.: All production marketed