PRODUCTS OF SAMOA.
HefeklvTW to the facts narrated In our correspondent's account of the trip of tho Wairarapa regarding tho products of Samoa, a gentleman resident at Apia writes as follows to an Auckland friend :— " With regard to tho conversation betwoen Consul and rcportor, you may bo sure that all the remarks oi the first are of no reliable foundation, and principally so with what ho says about coffeo, cotton, and sugar. Of coflce and sugar, I have nover seen any grown here. There aro somo coifee plants in cultivation, but I think they will never get much beyond hot-house results. Of sugar-cane, you see the natives sometimes chewing a poor specimen ; and of cotton some is grown and exported From here, but I do not believe that it pays, lam still of tho samo opinion as when* in Fiji, and so I would not in any way encourage you to look for settlement here. You ask me if I have not tried coffee myself, and to this I may reply, friend of plants that I am, I havo not yet evor thought of trying the coffee cultivation in a flower-pot. I have no confidence) whatever in Samoa plantations,"
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Te Aroha News, Volume 64, Issue II, 23 August 1884, Page 3
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199PRODUCTS OF SAMOA. Te Aroha News, Volume 64, Issue II, 23 August 1884, Page 3
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