TRADE DRIFT
BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND PACIFIC ISLANDS
GREAT FALLING OFF IN TWO YEARS By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright. Sydney, June 8. Tlie “Sydney Morning Herald,” dealing with the decrease in trade between Australia and the Pacific Islands. publishes figures showing that in ID2O the value of the imports of Australian goods to Samoa was £187,000; to Tonga, £150,000; and to Fiji, £536,000. In '1922, these totals fell to £105,000, £46,000, and £22,000 respectively. Trade with other islands has fallen similarly. The paper strongly urges the need for the making of efforts to stop this trade drift.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 224, 9 June 1923, Page 6
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