TRADE COMMISSIONER
RETURNS FROM EAST INDIES. (Australian Press Association.) ''Received this day at 9.25 a.m) SYDNEY, August 3. Mr Schmitt, New Zealand Trade Commissioner, has returned from East Indies. He is not prepared to state his opinions regarding the prospects of trade therewith until he has submitted an official report to the Government in September. He said it was very encouraging to find how well New Zealand is regarded in the East. He found Singapore a Very modern city. There ate excellent, public buildings ahj, up to date conveniences, but depression was prevailing as the result of u drop in the prices of tin and rubber, wherefor eighty thousand indentured labourers from surrounding Islands have been repatriated. There was a depression also in Netherlands East Indies on account of the decline in prices.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1931, Page 5
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