PACIFIC ISLANDS TRADE,

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 13 October 1916, Page 5

PACIFIC ISLANDS TRADE,

s ■ SYDNEY, Oct. 12. | At the Inter-State Commission on ' Pacific Trade, the general manager of the Colonial Sugar Company gave evidence that the wages and conditions in Fiji were better thafi in India. He did not see how Indian labor could be replaced, by white. I The. Fiji manager of the German Australian Shipping Company 'gave details of the scheme which had been under discussion between the German-Aus-tralian and Norddeutseher Lloyds.Company, whereby they had practically the main monopoly of the carriage of copra from the island. Part of the proposal was to run steamers from Sydney to Samoa and thence, possibly, to*the Solo- . mons* and German New Guin.ea, via the j Philippines", taking in Singapore, but, he added, it had to be remembered that things were not completed. Witness thought that Samoan cargo would be worth a .special line, because of the fast growing trade, ' \ I I