TRADE IN FIJI.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1927, Page 4

TRADE IN FIJI.

COTTON FOR LONDON

BANANAS TO SYDNEY.

(From our own Correspondent.) SUVA, March 31

The Government made another shipment of Sea Island cotton via Australia for London. The amount of seed cotton received by the Government this season is approximately 1,250,0001b, or about 900 bales. This means that some £ 15,000 will be distributed to growers as an advance against their cotton crop. When the cotton is sold there is another dividend for the grower. A good big area is being planted this season in spite of the open hostility of the sugar interests. Yet one more attempt is to be made to introduce Fijian bananas into the Sydney market. On Saturday some thousand cases of choice fruit will be shipped by the A.M.s. Sonoma. The fruit has been specially packed and graded, and it is hoped that they will bring such a price as ■to induce shippers to send along regular shipments. There is no doubt but that the fruit will be eagerly sought bv the Australian public. People in Fiji still live in the hope that better counsels will prevail with the Federal Government so that the fruit from the Colony will Le treated at the Customs as from a sister colony and not as at present, from a foreign country. Good Rubber Results. On? reads at times in such representative journals as the "United Empire" or ''Tropical Life" that exceptional records have been achieved in harvest .g various crops. The record jnst reported bv a Fiji rubber planter will take a lot of'bep.ting however. He reports that some of his trees have given remarkable yield, this season. His usual return from a daily task (400 to 500 trees) is 8 to 111b of green rubber, running up to 121b in the height ! «i the season—June-Julv. For three davs + Un Si? g one maD who is tapping 400 to +?, j *J, e ,? s per da >- tbe usual task, reX, ned 2 " b of green rubber. This is an abnormal yield, and the planter would hat! =L-i now if any other Planters have aSutTstarrK 6 -"" 3 - <"« «" T , Customs Revenue. monthsf of this vf for the fir *fc two estimate, g I " l^ 1 , 6 below the current month will * »™ bab,e that the deficit. STAmISFP" tacrea«e the With the Home"etoSif V a bi « "urease. fringing the laSeTca ™ port > a * ™e ™ bottom direct from tU P u™, £* one namely, 2695 tons Thl mted Ki ngdom, the two months were V-S^- 4 duties for estimate of £41,000 Fv;T'T\ again ßt an £107, as against £180 anT-ri d ? tie " wer * toms Service Tax was' £ ll ort and Cus£7o94. A3 £64/6 > as against