GERMAN ISLAND TRADE
GOVERNMENT TAKING ACTION. (Fbom Oto Own Coebespondent.) ' WELLINGTON. Ootober 5. Certain correepondenoe, bearing on the trade, relations existing betweep New' Zealand firms .'.'aa4 Germans carrying on business'in Samoa and 'Tonga,' was 1 handed to the Prime Minister to-day by Mr Glover, who asked -what'the intentions of the Government'in, the matter w&e. -
Mr Massey stated that a very big German firm was operating in these islands. Mr Wilford: Tho octopus of the Pacific. Mr Massey said the - Government was just onl the eve of appointing a gentleman to look into this matter, and to,take steps to prevent any trade with Germans from taking plaoe.; He could say no more - than that."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16507, 6 October 1915, Page 2
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