FORTUNATE JAMAICA
REVIVAL OF RUM TRADE NO MAJOR TROUBLES How the trade in Jamaica rum has benefited by the repeal of prohibition in the United States was mentioned. yesterday by Mr. N. B. Livingston, a member of the Supreme Court of Jamaica and of the council of the Law Association in that colony, who arrived at Auckland by the lonic from Kingston. Mr. Livingston, who is accompanied by his wife, Lady Cuffe, widow of the late Surgeon-Commander Sir Charles Cuffe, is spending a month's holiday in the Dominion. Mr. Livingston said trade conditions were satisfactory in tho West Indies, and especially in Jamaica. No difficulty was experienced in selling tropical fruits, especially bananas, to England, the United States and Canada. From most points of view Jamaica was in a very fortunate position. Life was orderly, and the population was little troubled by the major trials of the world. Mr. Livingston is a cousin of Mrs. A. T. Pycroft, of Auckland. During his stay in tho Dominion ho hopes to see something of New Zealand Court procedure.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21722, 10 February 1934, Page 14
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