SAMOAN TRADE
FURTHER DECLINE
DAMAGE BY STORMS
A further decrease in "value in both the import and the export trade of west: crn Samoa is recorded by the Administrator in ' his annual report for 1930-31, - presented in the House of Representatives yesterday. The volume of export trade was fully maintained, for, though, copra showed some falling-off, it was made up for in the substantial increase in exports of cacao and bananas, the number of cases of the latter shipped during the year being almost double the number for 1929. Unfortunately, lecent storms did great damage. ■ I "The low price obtained for produce, and particularly copra," saya the-report, "causes anxiety, but fortunately tho islands arc not now entirely dependent on one crop alone. The total trade for the year was £059,870 (made up of imports, £275,335, and exports, £284,515), as compared with "£582,787 for 1929 (made up of imports, £288,849, and exports,' £293,938).^ , • j
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 105, 30 October 1931, Page 9
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153SAMOAN TRADE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 105, 30 October 1931, Page 9
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