Products of the Group.

The Islands are very prolific in cocoanute, their product, copra, forms The princi [unclear: ter] of export. Last vear 7360 tons, [unclear: at] 19.717, were exported. All the comprising oranges, bananas, to New Zealand, and the value [unclear: exports] last year was £10,002. [unclear: valued] at £1594, whale oil £53 [unclear: few] odds and ends, such as candle [unclear: bava] pearlshell, curios, also figure on [unclear: list].

While Touga is a splendid cocoanut and country, it is not so suitable as or Fiji for many other tropical pro-[unclear: the] more extended area and greater of the latter groups creating a [unclear: ly] of temperature and greater rain-[unclear: with] the result that their resources are [unclear: more] varied. There will never be a [unclear: able] white population in Tonga, for [unclear: vely] little land is available for [unclear: peen] settlement, and the system of [unclear: being] leasehold, is not attractive male Tongan, upon reaching the [unclear: d] 21 years, is entitled to receive three [unclear: Hitlerto] there was no guarantee to [unclear: sentives] and when one grew a good [unclear: levy] made upon it bv the chiefs, [unclear: that] has been stopped now, and each has security. They now, therefore an incentive to occupy their lands and crops, and the immediate result has extensive planting, and the pro-[unclear: of a] largely increased export trade in [unclear: sear future].

[unclear: islands] are all intersected by good and the people are happy and con-[unclear: d] There is no squalor or beggary; [unclear: clothed] in such a manner as is suit-[unclear: in] the climatc: all can read and write. [unclear: are] familiar with the Gospel. Many [unclear: able] read music, and there are seve-[unclear: less] hands and choirs which would [unclear: their] own with some of the best of the [unclear: and] performers.