“ESTATES PROSPERING”
SAMOAN COCOA AND RUBBER
Twenty-nine years as manager of various plantations in Western Samoa is the record of Mr R. F. Ott, who arrived at Lyttelton yesterday by the Maui Pomare on extended holiday leave. For the last 10 years Mr Ott has been manager of the cocoa and rubber plantations for the Samoan Reparation Estates. Prices for cocoa beans and rubber are now good, and the estates are flourishing, Mr Ott told a representative of “The Press.” The plantation which he manages has 1600 acres in cocoa beans, with an output of 250 tons a year. Natives and coolies work the plantations. There were also *SOO acres in rubber at present being tapped, and the rubber output vas increasing.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21966, 15 December 1936, Page 5
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