Trochus Prices in T.I.
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From Our Own Correspondent
Thursday Is., March 28.
TROCHUS shell continues to drop ow ing to the unsettled conditions in the East, latest prices being about £50.
Even then sales are slow, as buyers do not feel like taking undue risks.
In a cable received recently by the Acting-Governor of Fiji (Hon. A. W.
Seymour) from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, it was advised that the quota of sugar from Fiji to be admitted into Great Britain during 1933-34 under the special preference was 44,000 tons.
Last year, the quota was 40,000 tons, so now an additional 4,000 tons will be ad mitted under the special preference of £1 per ton.
The Orient liner “Otranto” and the P. and O. liner “Maloja” will arrive in Pt.
Moresby on June 15 and 24 respectively on tourist voyages. Both vessels will carry a large number of tourists and will remain in Pt. Moresby for one day only.
It is hoped that the stay will be a suc cess, as this is the first attempt to at tract Australian tourists to Papua in large numbers.