GERMANS IN TONGA
BUSINESS REINSTATEMENT
EFFECT IN NEW ZEALAND
The reinstatement of German traders in Tonga is evidently an accomplished fact, judging from a letter received 'by an Auckland exporting merchant (says the "Herald").. The conimun.cation was of a circular type, issued by a Britishborn subject who had accepted the invitation of the Government of Tonga to carry 011 one of the temporarily sequestrated 'German and who, according to tho receiver of the notice, had apparently been ordered to "pack up" and leave. Tin? information contained in the letter was that as -a result of tho removal of German trading restrictions his business, which lie had leased from a German, automatically ceased, iand accordingly lio instructed the cancelling' of aU ordeis for goods not shipped. It is antic'nated in Auckland that similar, steps will be taken by other men who are placed in the same position* . ~ ~, With regard to the suggestion that the German trader's may be "starved out of business in Tonga if New_ Zealand firms refuse in a body to deal w:'th them, the manager of one of the largest exporting firms in the city expressed the gravest doubt"; that every merchant in the city would fall in with such nil idea. There were somo firms who would never agree to such a course, even if all the German mnrchnnts were deported from the Dominion. He feared that the whole trade with Hie Islands would get into the hands of certain ex-:nternees in the Auckland neighbourhood. The problem was a thorny one, in that, on tlici one hand there were those Germans ready and willing to exnort to Tonga, and, on the other, New Zealanders who were equally anxious to do busings in the same direction.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 101, 23 January 1920, Page 8
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288GERMANS IN TONGA Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 101, 23 January 1920, Page 8
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