PACIFIC ISLANDS TRADE
INQUIRY BY AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION.
IMPORTANT EVIDENCE GIVEN.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.
SYDNEY, October 12. (Received Oct. 12, at 5.40 p.m.) At the Interstate Commission's inquiry into Pacific trade matters, the general manager of the Colonial Sugar Companystated in evidence that the wage conditions in Fiji were better than in India. He did not see how Indian labour could be replaced by white in Fiji. The manager of the Gei man-Australian Shipping Company gave details of the scheme which had been under discussion by the German-Australian and Norddeutscher Lloyd Companies, by which they would practically gain a monopoly of the carriage of copra from the Islands. Part of the proposal was to run steamers from Sydney to Samoa, and thence possibly to the Solomon group and German New Guinea, via the Philippines, taking in Singapore ; but he added that it had to be remembered that things were not completed. Witness thought the Samoan cargo worth a special line, because it was a fast-growing trade.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16824, 13 October 1916, Page 4
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