AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1923, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN.

j AUbTItAi.IAN AM, N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SYDNEY, Eel, It). In connection with the decline in the. Island trade, ii is announced that twentv-ttve thousand tons of copra were produced annually al Rahaul, and will be sold henceforth t.o.b. Rahaul, thus enabling direct shipment to America and Europe, instead of through Sydney, as previously. Since the war. copra, which previously was shipped Iroin the Solomon Islands through Sydney, was going to direct to America and Rurope. SWIMMING. SYDNEY. Eel, Id- _

There is keen interest in to-morrow s swimming. The New Zealand ladies arrived in good titmi. and their practice work has 'created an excellent imp ression. .. llfll . I’HDSITIAIES CHEAT ERSYDNEY", Eebruarv 16. j Mr Harold Rope, the Australian ! Commissioners, of the Board of the British Phosphate Commission has announced that phosphate will be delivered at Eastern Australia for JOs 3d, which is three shillings dearer than the pre-war rate, hut as the Commissioners are paying six shillings increase in freights the rate is actually tliice shillings cheaper. Mr Pope added when a canti-lever is installed at Nauru it would completely revolutionise the loading, and make tor cheajer handling and reduced Heights by reason of the increased sailings. It would also make loading independent of the weaMr Rove in a review of the industry during the past twenty years said Rue output had jumped from twenty thousand to 266 thousand tons.