Industrial Unrest And A Flourishing Black Market In Papeete
(P.A.) Auckland, Jan. 13. Political and industrial unrest, monetary inflation and shortage, with a flourishing black market, characterised life in Papeete today, according to passengers in the vessel Waitemata, which arrived from, the American Pacific coast via Papeete and Samoa today. Impbrts, apart from food from New Zealand, were down to a minimum, said Mr. P. H. Edmunds, retired, of Papeete. Captain H. E. Wilson, formerly a commander of Royal Mail Line skips, who is on a holiday tour, Slid: "Papeete is all right if you argra millionaire. Costs have risen 560 per cent., and goods which are scarce are obtainable only on the black market." A Papeete resident, Mr. W. G. Smith, said there were now about 18 labour unions in Tahiti. These were the outcome of extensive discontent among the natives.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 17 January 1948, Page 2
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