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A. Cook and other Islands: Exports for Year 1903.

Summary. * From Cook Islands ... ... ... ■•• ••• ••• 26,840 „ Northern Islands... ... ... ... ••• ■•■ 7 > 900 Total exports from Cook and other Islands Federation ... £34,740 T. E. Heed, Rarotonga, 24th March, 1904. Collector of Customs.

Article. Where exported to. Quantity. lae. From Cook Islands. £ £ 48 Beche-de-Mer New Zealand 32 cwt. 3andlenuts Tahiti 89 tons 24 „ 534 144 Total 113 tons 678 Jocoanuts New Zealand 1,793 sacks 350 Coffee Tahiti 74,000 lb. 64,000 „ 1,250 1,060 Total 138,000 lb. 2,310 3opra New Zealand Tahiti 650 tons 5 „ 5,400 43 Total 655 tons 5,443 Cotton Dried Bananas Fruit, fresh, — Bananas New Zealand 15 cwt. 12 „ 30 18 25,843 cases and 10,075 bunches 60,346 cases 5,663 „ 282 „ 5 cwt. 56 tons 29,000 gins. 80 lb. 4,800 Oranges Pineapples Unenumerated l?ungus Kumaraa and yams . . Limejuice Manilla Miscellaneous >» 10,050 900 40 7 150 1,250 6 40 »» Total exports Cook Islands produce.. [mported goods reshipped Niue Tahiti 380 340 26,120 Total 720 Total exports from Cook Islands £26,840 From Northern Islands. Dopra New Zealand New South Wales Tahiti 80 tons 60 „] 310 „ 700 520 2,650 Total 450 tons 3,870 Mats and hats Tahiti 30 Pearl-shell .. New Zealand Tahiti 45 tons 5 ,, 3,600 400 ,, . . 50 tons 4,000 Total Total exports from Northern Islands £7,900