PACIFIC ISLANDS TRADE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12480, 5 March 1909, Page 3

PACIFIC ISLANDS TRADE.

[United Peess Association.] . Aticklahd, March 4. HbniJ. jDarrbll,' Minister in Charge of the!- Island Dependencies,; has', completed negotiations -with. an. AucbJancl firm for a schooner to run between S and ; The ) ordmary island services, he says, do Bot , fa + t , in with Niue, and. despite the fact that the schdoner Ysabel trades,, regularly with that island, a proportion of the trade- is filtering through Tonga to Skmoa: The Minister, therefore, deemed it advisable to arrange this schooner service with Auckland with the object of trying to secure the business for New Zealand. Mr Carroll hopes that with a little encouragement the resources of Niue may be considerably developed: A doctor has also been appointed to Niue i to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of the 1 " former doctor in charge.