PACIFIC ISLAND TRADE.
OUSTING THE GERMAN MONOPOLY
BRITAIN MUST ACQUIRE GERMAN POSSESSIONS.
Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Received October 0, 5.5 p.m. Sydney, October 6. The Interstate Commission is enquiring into the Pacific Island trade. The manager of the Islands department of the Burns, Philp Co. gave evidence regarding a contract entered into by the Germans, wiiereby they practically captured the copra trade. The German South Pacific trade was practically in the hands of four leading linns, which had such a completely interwoven system that competition was impossible. If, after the war, Britain took over the German island possessions, the population and trade would become British in. stead of German. He anticipated" a great increase in trade would result,
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 October 1916, Page 4
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117PACIFIC ISLAND TRADE. Taranaki Daily News, 7 October 1916, Page 4
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