DEPRESSION IN THE ISLANDS.
CONDITIONS AT RAROTONGA. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 5. Mr Bicknell, of Christchurch, who lias just returned from a business trip to the Islands, says that Rarotonga is suffering acutely from the trade depression. The orange trees aro going back through neglect and the copra market is dead. The population, however, are not starving, Nature supplying plenty of food, such as plantains, bread-fruit, etc. The kindly climate makes the lot of the unemployed easier than it would be in most other places. There is no work obtainable, he says.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 109, 5 April 1933, Page 8
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93DEPRESSION IN THE ISLANDS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 109, 5 April 1933, Page 8
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