New Guinea Bounties For
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10 More Years.
UNDER regulations gazetted on January 27, bounties paid by the Commonwealth Government on pro ducts of New Guinea and Papua for con sumption in Australia have been ex tended for 10 years from January 1, 1938.
The items affected include cocoa beans, cocoa shells, fibres, coir, sago, bamboo and rattan products, spices and kapok.
The bounties on goods produced in these territories were first paid in 1936 and have operated ever since as an in ducement for them to enlarge their trade with the Commonwealth. Rates of bounty are not specified in the regu lations.
Mr. W. E. Bellingham, who has been a miner in Papua for some years, ar rived in Australia by the January “Macdhui”. He intends to settle down in Queensland.
Mrs. A. C. Turnbull, wife of the Acting Administrator of Western Samoa, arrived in New Zealand with her daughter Ruth from Apia by the January “Matua”. Miss Turnbull has become a pupil at Chilton-St. James College, Wellington.