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Traders In Samoa
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, April 12.
THE Apia Chamber of Commerce has submitted a proposal to the Adminis tration to enforce regulations framed some years ago that every trader, before being licensed, should show proof of possessing sufficient capital. The Ordinances also fixed a minimum amount of stock to be carried in every trading station.
These regulations tend to prevent the opening of trading stations, especially in country districts, by small independent traders with limited means, and favour the large commercial concerns with their many branch stations.
A deputation of the independent traders has waited upon the Acting Administrator to voice their objections to the proposal of the Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. S. M. Lambert, head of the Rocke feller Foundation in the Western Pacific, arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, from Fiji, by the Mariposa on April 17.