NEW INDUSTRY FOR ST. HELENA
Johannesburg, by Airmail, Reuter.—ln lonely St. Helena, the British colony out in the midAtlantic recently visited by the Duke of Edinburgh, they are hoping that 1957 will really be a good year—all because of South African enterprise. Since the end of the Korean war, with its attendant slump in the price of flax, the island’s main export, the years have followed the same depressing pattern with monotonous regularity. Each year the grants from the British Government to keep the island solvent have grown larger and larger. But 1957 will go down in the island’s history as the year South African money and initiative took a hand. A South African firm has just begun to can the huge black huna which abound in the clear waters of the island for sale to housewives in Africa as well as Britain
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28252, 13 April 1957, Page 6
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