PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
NEW FORM OF CONTROL Satisfaction with the Philippine Government since control was handed over to it by the United States was expressed by Mr. U 1). Ifarpis. a leading American attorney from Cebu, Philippine Islands, who’ has arrived at Auckland on a visit to Nnv Zealand. Indications were for good conditions in the islands during the five-year period before duties are charged on produce from there entering the/ United States. 1 This was practically the only market for the islands at. present, and unless trade relations could lie. straightened out before the end of the period or markets
for the principal products—copra, hemp, sugar, tobacco arid gold—established elsewhere, the. territory would be faced with very hard times. A trade commission had been appointed to try and work out a solution w T ith the United States.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 12
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138PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 12
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