Late News
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Sydney, Nov. 19.
COMMONWEALTH Government has decided that imports of Fiji bananas shall be freed from sales tax, and pro bably primage. (See art. on page 58).
IN October, the Bulolo G.D. Co.’s four dredges (New Guinea), produced 16,122 ozs. of bullion and 11,200 ozs. of fine gold, valued at £A95,200, from 863,000 cubic yards. Working profit for October, £69,830.
DISTRICT Officer Ward Oakley, who captured the Japanese poachers in Manus, was married in Rabaul on Novem ber 1 to Miss Dot Burston.
Mr. Charles B. Nordhoff, Well
known American author, arrived in Sydney on November 17, from Tahiti, on a short visit to Australia.
MR. G. H. DAVIES, postmaster at Raro tonga for some years, has been trans ferred to N.Z. and will depart thence at the end of year.
NEW, modern sea-baths, with fresh water showers, dressing rooms, tea rooms, etc., attached, will be opened at the ocean beach, Noumea, on December 1.
THE arrival this month of nine more Chinese settlers in Vila, New Hebrides, has caused alarm.
THE old La Perouse is being replaced in the Noumea-Sydney service in January by “Pierre Loti” (3012 tons).
IT is reported by radiogram that Mr.
Nason Jones’s assistant, whose name we believe to be Mr. Walters, was killed instantly by lightning near Bulldog aero drome, Lakekamu, Papua.