SAMOAN TRADE.
LARGE COPRA OUTPUT. The copra season just ended has been a record in Tutuila, Samoa. Some 1195 tons have been cut on the island of Tutuila; the highest number of tons ever cut before being 1093, in 1911. The season which is now beginning starts in record form, as the contract let on March' 1, 1918, to John Rothschild and Co., of San Francisco, is for over £27 per ton of 2240 ib; the previous record price was £21 in the year 1914. Tho price to be paid the natives per pound whon the copra is delivered at (ho sheds is also a new record ; 2Jd per pound is to be paid for each pound of copra delivered; the previous rocord price per pound at the time of delivery was 2d. With the island's product bringing such a price it is hoped that a still greater crop may be produced this season. The islands of the Manna group have not produced any copra for sale since the hurricane of 1915; but it is expected that they may cut a little this year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16833, 25 April 1918, Page 5
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