Produce Prices
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Unless otherwise shown, stated quotations are in Australian currency. Australian dollar [March 10) equals: New Zealand, 51.2175 [buying), $1.2131 (selling); Fiji, $1.1040 (buy ng), $l.OBOO (selling); Western Samoa, tala J. 9790 (buying), 0.9654 (selling); Tonga, ja'anga 0.8826 (buying), 0.8650 (selling); US, 51.2511 (buying), $1.2461 (selling); UK, 50.6463 (buying), £0.6409 (selling); French ’acific, CFP, 103.71 (buying), 102.12 (selling).
Copra
Copra Industries are controlled through copra cards in PNG, the Solomons, the Gilberts, oth Samoas, Fiji, Tonga, the Cooks and the S Trust Territory. New Hebrides, French olynesia and New Caledonia do not have oards and copra is either sold individually y growers to overseas buyers or used locally.
NEW GUINEA: The board, with planters' ! PS, directs distribution and sales and pays enters. Shipments are made to UK, European arkets and to Australia and Japan, and coco- Jt oil mills on New Britain.
Latest prices are: Per tonne, delivered ain ports, hot-air dried, K 131; FMS, Kl2B - K 126.
FIJI:—The board fixes prices on Philippines ipra, taking into account freight, taxes, selling •sts, shrinkage, etc. The price is subsidised Uest prices were: Fiji 1, $190: Fiji 2 $l7l - $7O.
NEW HEBRIDES: Copra sold direct by lanters to France and Japan. Burns Phi Id lying on wharf, Vila or Santo, Feb 25, 3,500 HF, Mar 5 89.25 met francs 100 kg cif arsei lies.
US TRUST TERRITORY:— Ist grade, $9O, 2nd ade, $BO, 3rd grade, $7O. Outer Islands, >5, $55 and $45 ton for the three grades, serviced by government ships and $55, 15 and $35 if serviced by private ships.
COOK ISLANDS. —AII production is sold to Abels Ltd, Auckland. Prices are based on average world prices for the prior three or six months, and remain in force for three months.
GILBERT ISLANDS.—SI79.2O a ton, or 8c a pound.
WESTERN SAMOA.— Ist grade, $W5109.50, 2nd grade $W596.50.
TONGA.— AII copra sold to EEC. Ist grade, grade, ST7O; 2nd grade, STSB.
Other Produce
COCOA. —lslands rates are based on Ghana prices. Ghana price on Mar 11 was spot £stg79o ton, cif, UK Continent.
Mar 11, in store, Rabaul, export quality, K 950 per tonne; delivered ex wharf Sydney $1,190 per tonne.
Solomons. —Delivered to Agriculture Dept, offices in Honiara and Auki. Recent price was 25c per lb dried beans first grade, 20c second grade.
Western Samoa. —Ungraded beans, $23.50 (100 lb).
COFFEE. —PNG, Mar 11. Good quality, A Grade 1874 c per kg ; B Grade, 183 c; C Grade, 178 c, Y Grade, 178 c (ex-store Sydney).
W. Samoa. —Recently, WSTEC ground and dried beans, 60 sene per lb wholesale.
PEANUTS. PNG: Sydney agents reported recently f.0.b., Lae: Kernels—white Spanish 19c lb BROOMCORN. —Fiji, Ist grade, 164 c lb, 2nd grade, 144 c lb.
RICE (Aust): — PNG: Dried brown, 25 kilo bags, $298.94 per tonne. Vitamin enriched white, 25 kilo bags, $303.94 per tonne, all f.o.w. Sydney/Melbourne. Pacific Islands: Calrose med. grain, white, 25 kilo bags, $3lO per tonne. Kulu long grain white, 25 kilo bags, $355 per tonne. All prices c.&f. Sydney/ Melbourne.
RUBBER. —Singapore, Mar 9,42.25 c a kilo.
VANILLA BEANS. Prices recently were: White *nd yellow label processed standard packs, $7.50; green label $7.40, c.i.f., Sydney.
Tonga.—sl4.2o, f.0.b., Nukualofa; $T4.50, Mel bourne. • Villagers from Nailauwaki on the small island of Waya, in the
Yasawas, Fiji, have developed a new
industry—rearing goats for sale at Lautoka. The scheme was started
with 35 goats, pooled by villagers
who bred them individually.