SAMOAN PLANTERS FIND COCOA IS PROFITABLE.
According to passengers on board the Maui Pomare, which arrived from Niue Island this morning, the effects of the depression are being felt in Samoa by business people and planters. No business is being done in rubber, and the price of copra has fallen. On thereparations estates cocoa is being cultivated, and a good price is obtained for the beans. It is reported that growers of this product are doing well. The Maui Pomare brought a consignment of SO sacks of cocoa beans which were railed to Dunedin.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19269, 5 January 1931, Page 8
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94SAMOAN PLANTERS FIND COCOA IS PROFITABLE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 19269, 5 January 1931, Page 8
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