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COCONUT PLANTER'S MANUAL. 



A NOTE ON THE INDUSTRIAL POSITION OF COPRA, 

 COCONUT OIL AND COCONUT CAKE. 



(Based ox Imperial Institute Reports.) 



In view of the present unsettled condition of trade with Europe 

 the figures given below represent the last available before the war, 



and are reproduced as indicating the producing capacity of the various, 



coconut-growing countries. These figures showing the annual export 

 ten years ago will give a fair idea of the possibilities of the coconut 

 industry when normal conditions of trade prevail. 



Quantity. 



British Territories ; cwts. 



Ceylon ... ... ... 1,117,292 



India ... ... .. 763,832 



Federated Malay States .. ... 185,753 



Seychelles ... ... ... 58,738 



Tongan Islands Protectorate ... ... 222,400 



Fiji Islands ... ... ... 158,585 



Papua .. ... ... 15,880 



British Solomon Islands ... ... 83,920 



Gilbert and Ellicc Islands Protectorate ... 41,700 



East Africa Protectorate ... ... 31,283 



Zanzibar (value £216, 842) ... ... — 



Gold Coast ... ... .- 12,589 



Trinidad ... ... ... 10,308 



Foreign Territories: 



Philippine Islands ... ... ... 1,618,080 



Java ... ... ... 1.556,000 



Sumatra (East Coast) ... ... 80,860 



Celebes ... ... ... 580,340 



Indo-CLina ... ... _ 157,074 



New Caledonia ... ... ... 53,173 



French Oceania ... ... ... 117,662 



Samoa ... ... ... 220,423 



Bismarck Archipelago, German Solomon Islands, 



and German New Guinea ... .- 223,814 



East Carolines, Marshall Islands, and Nauru ... 94,940 



Wett Carolines, Pelew and Mariana" Itlaiads ... 21,706 



German East Africa ... ... 83,468 



Portuguese East Africa ... .,. 78,820 



