FIVE YEAES IN SAMOA

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 78, 29 September 1930, Page 11

FIVE YEAES IN SAMOA

PEESExN'T TRADE CONDITIONS

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evenina Post")

AUCKLAND, This Day.

"With the price of rubber-anywhere between 9d and Is a lb, New Zealand reparation, estates in. Samoa can show a profit,/but the price is now about sd, and'work on the. rubber, .plantations has been suspended .-until: the recovery of. the. market,'.'.said Mt.J.Jj. Hughes,- who arrived in; Auckland on -the Tofua, after' spending' five;, years in Samoa on woTk ou the. native rubber :°^Hv 'Hughes,- who has had ;sixteehyears': expericiYCO. on,' rubberplantations in. British North' Borneo and the Federated Malay States,, went to Sainoa^ ,to open up plantations there which had been lying idle since the war. iFor.flve years without a break he has resided there, and now,\at the terminatiou of his engagement, is aboufto return to England. : . ''' ■<'■' ■ ' Mr. Hughes said that' quietness-has prevailed- in' Samoa during thd. last, year, and the natives seemed to have settled down. . Economically* conditions ivoro- libt good iiow :owing- to the very low. -price being obtained for/rubber, arid copra. Cocoa is still at''a profi* able level, while bananas wereTegarded as the mainstay, and 'the natives were increasing their :plantations, as rapidly"as possible.. :,-.-',; .-■■