Samples of kapok and cotton have been received by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce from Samoa, with a request that the attention of merchants and manufacturers be attracted to these products. It. is stated that New Zealand imports over £40,000 worth of kapok annually from Java, and has practically no export trade with that country( whereas if Auckland could take an increasing quantity of South Pacific Island products the province would send out an increasing amount of export trad© to these places.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3327, 19 December 1917, Page 19
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82Page 19 Advertisements Column 1 Otago Witness, Issue 3327, 19 December 1917, Page 19
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