Flood Of Japanese Goods
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In B.S.I.
A well-known Solomon Islands trader, Mr. R. C. Laycock, who arrived in Sydney on September 23, said that cheap Japanese and Chinese goods were ousting British products. At present there was a general duty of 12½ per cent, on imports, but many residents were agitating for a preferential tariff.
Planters were facing ruin, because of the low prices for copra, said Mr. Lay cock.
Mr. E. V. Patterson, a trader at Gavutu also said that Japanese and Chinese goods were selling at very low prices. He had been offered khaki shorts, made in China, at 9/- a dozen, and matches bearing a Japanese brand at 2/3 a gross of boxes.