Company’s Position

No Restriction or Limit

The substance of the above article was conveyed to the general manager of Messrs. Burns, Philp (South Seas)

Ltd., and he kindly supplied the fol lowing comment; Your correspondent is not correct.

He can ship as much coin as he likes, either to or from the New Hebrides.

There has never been any restriction or limit as far as Burns, Philp & Co.

Ltd. are concerned.

Drafts are made available by the company throughout the group for domestic and other approved transac tions, at a maximum rate of 2½ per cent. The bank rate from Fiji and Australia is 111 per cent. The local exchange and currency is a Condomin ium matter, and Burns, Philp & Co.

Ltd. are just as much inconvenienced as your correspondent.

Copra prices are continually chang ing and competitive.

Burns. Philp & Co. will carry all the cargo and passengers they can get, and if it is insufficient for the Makam bo, the Malinoa will deliver it, even if it is only one package to a Britisher.

Pastor W. G. Turner, president of the Australian Union Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists, returned to Sydney from the New Hebrides by the Makambo. Pastor A. G. Stewart, vice president of the Conference, was also a passenger by that steamer.

Dr. and Mrs. E. G. Sayers have re turned to the Solomon Islands, after furlough in New Zealand