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China’S Ban On The
Australian Beche-de-Mer Fishers Suffer.
From Our Own Corresvondent.
Samarai, May 3.
THE beche-de-mer market continues dead. An explanation given by Hongkong agents is that, owing to China’s ban on all Japanese produce generally, the market remains stagnant.
Whilst beche-de-mer is one of the prin cipal commodities handled by Japanese in these waters, there is still a large quantity supplied by Australians, both here and in other parts of the Pacific.
This, for some reason, comes under the ban and suffers the same penalty as that produced by the Japanese.
If some guarantee could be given by the merchants, concerning which was Japanese produce and which was not, a position of some difficulty would be eased, so far as Australians are con cerned.