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Pacific Islands Monthly, 24 October 1935Vol. VI, No. 3

Products

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No Primage Tax on N.G.-Papuan Products

IT was formally announced, at the end of September, that all goods which are the produce of Papua and New Guinea may now enter Australia free of prim- ”tctX.

The non-imposition of primage tax by Australia on the products of the Aus tralian Pacific territories seemed a; reasonable thing, and this journal; strongly advocated it two years ago. But. two years of agitation were necessary before bureaucracy could be induced toi move.

Major F. Hewitt, manager of Lever’s?

Pacific Plantations Pty. Ltd., returned tot Svdnev by the Malaita on September 26,. after an inspection visit to his company « large estates in the Solomon Islands.