PACIFIC TRADE.
EVIDENCE AT INTER-STATE COMMISSION. Australian-N.£. Cable Association.Received Oct. 12. 6.40 p.m. Sydney, Oct. 12. At the Inter-State Commission on Pacific Trade, the general manager of the 'Colonial Sugar Company gave evidennee that the wages and conditions in Fiji were better than inrlndia. He did not see how Indian labor could be replaced by white, ! The Fiji manager of the German Australian Shipping Company gave details of the scheme which had been under discussion between the German-Ans-tral!an and Norddeutscher Lloyds Company, whereby they had practically the main monopoly of the carriage of copra from the island. Part of the proposal was to run steamers from Sydney to Samoa and thence, possibly, to the Solomons and German New Guinea,,via the Philippines, taking in Singapore, but. he added, it had to be remembered that things were not completed. Witness thought that , Samoan cargo would be worth a special line, because of tho fast growing trade.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1916, Page 4
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154PACIFIC TRADE. Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1916, Page 4
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