PACIFIC ISLANDS

Southland Times, Issue 18829, 24 May 1920, Page 5

PACIFIC ISLANDS

| FORMER GERMAN POSSESSIONS. , AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION'S RECOMi MEN DATA <NS. ii By Tel'gr aph.— Press A sn.--Copyright. I | tAusiral;.-!: and N.Z. Cab:-.: Association.) { MELBOURNE. May 22. j The report of the Commission to report ion the adminktratirn of former German j territory con-idcrs the cost of government | would be £230.090 annually. The report j recommends that £200,000 of tins be raised iby local taxation, principally import and j export duties, and the granting of a Comj monv.ealth subsidy of £50,000 annually, Ail? : uhsidy Inter to he withdrawn. It also j advocate.-' nr.<ionnhsa:io:; of the German i properties, which should he carried on by i the Commonwealth. I Tiie majority report recommends that the i prove: r.ment be orerni ■ed on the lines of the | present Papuan Government, with an adi u.ini-trator, executive. and Legislative • Council rl a cost of £103.000 yearly. It ; advii es the imposition (A a super-tax on the - expos: of c ap!" 1 , hut i.oe.t not recommend Aimiena'is-dion of plantations:, Mating that . if v.f vil 1 involve a capital outlay of at least i £2,59:1,000. It recommends- a preferential \ territory tariff in favour of Australia, and 1 next of the Empire; also preferential Aus- ; Indian duties i:i favour of Papua and man- | dated, territories. 1 The report else urges that liquidated Ger--1 man trading companies and their assets, j consisting of town blocks, be held by the Government and leased.