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COCO-NUTS IN THE SOLOMON 

 ISLANDS. 



THE following interesting account of a trip 

 taken by Mr. Stuart S. Garrick, of Samoa, was 

 published by the Samoanische Zeitung a little 

 time back : 



" I arrived at Guadalcanar Island the same 

 evening, where we anchored. Here is situated 

 the head station of the Malaita Company, on a 

 small island. Early the following morning 

 the steamer called at Kaukau plantation, 600 

 acres planted ; also at Mauronia, 600 acres : 

 the former is quite a new plantation. At the 

 latter the steamer loaded copra and returned to 

 our previous night's anchorage, where I went 

 ashore and visited Aola, a small plantation of 

 1 20 acres of 8 year old nuts. Here we took 

 on board about 20 tons of ivory nuts from a 

 German company who have a collecting station 

 in the vicinity. Ivory nuts are grown in 

 swampy land, they take seven years to come 

 to maturity, and give one very big crop. The 

 present value is about 12 IDS. per ton in 

 Sydney. The natives receive trade goods 

 equal to a few shillings per bag only, so you 

 can imagine the profit there is in them. They 

 are shipped to Hamburg, and are made into 

 buttons, serviette rings, &c. 



