American Lumber Strike
p. 52 · Read in the full issue
Affects Tahiti
From Our Own Correspondent.
PAPEETE, August 4.
OWING to the recent strike of lumber workers on the Pacific Coast and the consequent closing down of the lumber yards, the Union Company’s freighter Hauraki arrived on July 16 without her usual cargo of lumber.
Several new buildings now in course of construction in Papeete, notably those belonging to Mr. Charles Browne on the S.C.O. block, are held up on account of the severe shortage of lumber in the town. It is expected that the situation will be relieved on August 26, when the freighter Sheafholm is scheduled to arrive.
Rev. J. W. Burton, M.A., general sec retary of the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia, arrived back in Sydney in the middle of August from a visit to Western Samoa and Fiji.