Trading Licenses For
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New Hebrides
THE law relating to trading licenses in the New Hebrides has been amen ded and consolidated by a new regula tion, published in the Official Condomi nium Gazette No. 95, of January. 1937.
It is provided that all traders in the New Hebrides, of whatever degree, must have a trading license, the currency of which shall be from January 1 to December 31.
License fees range from £4O per annum for bankers down to £l6 per annum for import and export merchants, £4 per annum per station for traders and copra traders, and £2/10/- per annum for re tail shopkeepers without employees. Even artisans and hawkers working by them selves must pay a license fee of 16/-.
Professional people are not under any obligation to obtain a trading license; and the exemptions, for some reason also include miners, prospectors, and fishermen.