AUSTRALIAN-FIJI TRADE.
AFFECTED BY HARASSING TARIFF (Received 2, 9.55 a.m.) Sydney, Aug. 2. Mr Grahame, Mayor of Suva, who is visiting Sydney, markes a vigorous protest against the Commonwealth duty on Fiji bananas. He complains that the loss of Australian trade bits the white planters ihard, and has reduced the direct steamer service with Sydney to one monthly. Before the duties were imposed the monthly shipment of bananas to Sydney was valued at £30,000. Fiji’s demand for Australian goods als (shrunk greatly. Fiji now obtains most of her supplies direct from Britain. The closing of the Australian market left New Zealand the only-market available for bananas.
Mr Grahame urged that it was essential to foster a stable, financially independent white population in Fiji in order to prevent control by Indian elements, which, were making ever increasing demands for equal status. Alie« colour in a place of such strategic importance as Fiji could not be politically regarded with indefference. —(A. and (A. and(N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 201, 2 August 1924, Page 5
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