PACIFIC ISLANDS TRADE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 7 October 1916, Page 5

PACIFIC ISLANDS TRADE.

Australian-N.Z. Cable Association SYDNEY, October 6

The Interstate Commission is enquiring into the Pacific Islands ..trade-. The manager of the Islands department of the Burns, Philp Co. gave evidence regarding a contract entered into by the Germans, whereby they practically captured the copra trade. The German South Pacific trade was practically in the hands of four leading firms, which had such a completely interwoven system that competition was impossible. If, after the war, Britain tools over the German island possessions, the population and trade would become British instead of German.. He anticipated a great increase in trade would result.