Britain Purchases West Africa’s Cocoa
(British Official Wireless.) Received Thursday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 25,
Tho Colonial Office announces tho purchase by Britain of the whole of tho forthcoming cocoa crops of the Gold Coast, Nigeria and West Africa. A Cocoa Control Board is being set up to administer tho scheme. Equal treatment will be extended to producers in the French colonies which have adhered to the Free French movement, and while plans are being settled, the British Government, to provide for the immediate resumption of trade in the French Cameroons, is buying 12,000 tons of cocoa as far as possible from stocks of the past crop, and 4500 tons are being shipped to Britain immediately.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 229, 27 September 1940, Page 7
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