Produce Prices

Inless otherwise stated, quotations are lustralian currency. New Zealand $1 .Is $A1.24, Western Samoa $1 equals 24, 8/- Sterling equals SAI; 1 pa’anga iga) equals SAI; 5,381 rupees Ceylon ,1s SAI; 98 Pac. Frs. equals SAI and 1.125 equal SAI.)

Copra

iPUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production elivered to Copra Marketing Board, rolled by six members, including three ters’ representatives. The board directs ibution and sales, and makes pay :s to the producers. Production goes ily to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) Aus a for local consumption, (c) crushing in Rabaul, and (d) Japan (surplus vailable). Prices generally tally with g rate in Philippines with premiums lot-air dried.

NG Board’s purchase prices for copra ered main ports in September were lir dried, $126 per ton; FMS, $123 per smoke-dried, $l2l per ton.

JI; —The Fiji Coconut Industry Board the prices to be paid for Fiji i on a formula based on that for ppines copra, and taking into account tit, taxes, selling costs, shrinkage, The copra must be graded at centres uva, Levuka, Lautoka, Savusavu and uni. Prices in Suva to Oct. 15 were; e one, £FS7/15/-; grade two, 2/17/6 and grade three, £F4S. A of deductions has been established copra delivered to grading centres ■ than Suva.

SSTERN SAMOA:—AII production is to the Copra Board of Western ia at fixed prices. The Board makes tents to producers through its agents s local firms—and sells the copra on ipen market with a portion to Abels NZ. Last prices in September were >6 for grade one, SWS9I for grade mn dried, and SWSB3 for grade two.

NGA; All copra is sold to the Tonga i Board which sends it to Europe the open market. September prices owers were $T104.50 first grade and second grade.