Commercial.

Samoanische Zeitung, Volume 19, Issue 35, 30 August 1919, Page 3

Commercial.

n Apia, Friday. V>pra. - Nothing particularly, noteworthy hay transpired In the Ocal market tins week, supplies haying been on the short side with prices regaining 5m at the figtues given a week a«o. viz par ton, or 5c per !h in Apia, and fractional modifications in ontside districts corresponding to locality. Consignments may be light lor another week or two, but there are considerable stocks awaiting shipment at outside stations. A visitor from the Aleipata district iutorms us that cutting operations there are woefully behind hand. Huge quantities of nuts lie on the ground, rotting - away or tl-.e leaves sprouting out sometimes six or eight leet high. He foresees "any amount" of copra coming to hand in a week or so and throughout the ensuing month, as the natives are getting busy in preparation for the "May met tings" and the call of the annual tax Cocoa -- No business has transpired, as tar a.s our information goes, during t!i* past Jew days. There are inquiries ot local merchants trora New Zealand and Australia, and also on account of the London market, at all ot which ceniu-s there is keen demand for the product Local buyers are orrWino £l2O per ton, with the market still firming up at this record figure. Growers are io optimistic vein, the rtceut rains having heeu of iue.stimable benefit to the growing crop, London Market. Quotalio 1, July, £l6O per ton Stocks on hand, 109,000 tons, as compaied with 154,000 in 1918, and 287,000 a 1917 Miscellaneous. Business aii round continues brisk, though p r i~es are still rising in some commodities. Keg beef is quoted at 325. Australian flour, 25 lb bags Bs, 150 lb sacks, 40s. ; ioap, sold a month ago at a shilling, now is, yd. Biscuits are still short. Rice, ot course, has declined in the retail pi ice, owing to the reduction iu duty. Japanese rice, 56 lb bag, 30s to 355; coolie rice, size 25, 15s, 50's 305., 200's. 120s per sack.