PACIFIC TRADE COMMISSION
EVIDENCE ABOUT SUGAR AND COPRA. STBNEY, IZth October. The Liter-State Commission on Pacific Trade heard evidence from the general manager of the Colonial Sugar Company. He stated thaife the wage conditions in Fiji were better t-han in India. He did not see how Indian labour could be replaced by wlfite labour in Fiji.
The manager of the Gernian^Aiistralian Shipping Company gave details of a scheme which had been under discussion between it-he German-Australian and Nord-Deutscher Llcyd Companies, whereby they would practically gain a monopoly, of the carriage of copra from the island. Part of the proposal was to run steamers from Sydney to Samoa, and ithence possibly to 'the Solomons and German Guinea, via the Philippines, taking in Singapore, but, he added, it had to be remembered that things were not completed. Witness -thought (that Samoan cargo was worth a special line because of the fast: growing trade. (Received October 13, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Continuing his statement, the manager of the German-Australian Shipping Company said he further thought that there should be a central Government of the islands, which would adapt itself to its own environment. This would bo better than being governed from Australia, England, or New Zealand.
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 90, 13 October 1916, Page 7
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204PACIFIC TRADE COMMISSION Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 90, 13 October 1916, Page 7
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