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Coffee is a good deal damaged and broken in cleaning, 
and of all colours. We would suggest sending home 
small parcels, well cured and dried in parchment that 
can be cleaned here, taking great care that berries which 
have fallen on the ground and thereby spoiled are not 
mixed with the good berries, We should probably get a 
much better result. 
Coffee, such as samples now before us, owing to the 
very low prices now ruling for Santos and Rio descrip- 
tions from Brazil, cannot possibly pay, but might eventu- 
ally do so if cured and cleaned properly, in other words, 
good and fine Coffees may keep up in value, and good 
ordinary sorts remain very low. Our opinion ts that if 
a well cured sample could be produced it would bring 
20/- to 30/- per cwt. more, say 6o/- to So/-. At present 
there is no chance of Liberian going up, there is too 
much Brazil. 
Have your friends thought of cultivating Cocoa? We 
should recommend this if the ground is suitable. Present 
prices range from 65/- to 75/- per cwt. and the prospeéts 
are good, whereas except for fine Coffees the outlook is 
not bright. | 
We are, etc., 
(Signed) LEWIS & PEAT. 
On the motion of Mr. Messer, a vote of thanks was 
accorded to Dr, Morris for the trouble he had taken in 
the matter, the Secretary being dire€ted to convey the 
same. | 
The Secretary read a circular from the Imperial Insti- 
tute stating that a Commercial Reading Room had been 
opened at the Institute, which was ordered to be laid on 
the table, 
