Foreign Soap
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Tahiti Raises Duty On
From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, June 7.
SOME months ago, as reported in the Pacific Islands Monthly, the Papeete Chamber of Commerce discussed the question of raising the import duty on foreign soap to afford protection to Mar seilles soap and to the local soap factories.
The proposition, however, did not secure the support of the Chamber, but was sub sequently taken up again by the “Con seil Prive.” As a result this measure has now been approved by the home authori ties.
By a decree dated March 18, 1936, and published in the Journal Official of Tahiti on June 1, the duty on foreign laun
dry soap is now 150 francs per 100 kilo grammes. Most of the laundry soap im ported at present comes from New Zea land which will, therefore, be the chief sufferer from the new decree.
Another interesting item in the same announcement is that which prohibits the importation of bees from abroad. This appears to the resu.t of research work who the coursl of his work discovered that the Tahitian entirely free from the disease ’inToTahlU' * intr ° dUCti ° n ° £ loul t> roocl into xan . .
Miss M. Byron, of the Department of Education in Queensland has joined the staff of the European school at Rabaul.
New Guinea.