TRADE WITH THE ISLANDS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 June 1923, Page 7

TRADE WITH THE ISLANDS.

♦ A SERIOUS FALLING OFF. BY CABLE—PSESS ASCV3IATION—COFYEIGHT j SYDNEY, June 8. j The Sydney Morning Herald, dealing with the decrease- in trade between Australia and the Pacific Inlands, pub- j lishes figures showing that in 1920 im- i ports of Australian goods, to Samoa totalled £187,000; Tonga, £150,000; Fiji £536,000. In 1920 these totals fell to: Samoa £105.000, Tonga £46,000, Fiji £422,0|0. Trade with other islands has similarly decreased, i The Herald strongly urges the need of efforts to stop this trade drift. I