FIJI TRADE
. .'A' FALIi IN EXPORTS. . , ■By Telecniph—Press AB«ociation. ; Auckland, February 4." The total value of tho exports from Fiji for 1918 was £1,656,065, as against £2.251.570 ■ or 1917. A big drop wae in sugar, mainly due to labour shortage. Sugar totalled £981,018 for 1918, the lowest for eeveral years. In .1917 the total value stood «t' £1,485.(M0. while 1916- was a record year, tho figure standing at £1,729,658. Bananas show a big decrease. The. figures for 1916-17 and 1918 wero £205.122, £169,718, and £132.677. : The falling off in 1917 was duo entirely to the shipping strike in Australia, and last year to. the epidemic and the strike. Thoueande of pounds worth of bananas simply rotted on the ground, and the growers' losses were very heavy indeed. A bright feature is the morease in copra. In 1918 a total of 19,318 tons (worth £469,332) was exported, as against 15,368 tons, the previous largest, total (worth £359,372fr in 1917.» Other exports, principally rubber, eicishell and molassee. yielded £72,838 for 1918 «s against £53,728 for 1917.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 112, 5 February 1919, Page 8
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174FIJI TRADE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 112, 5 February 1919, Page 8
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