Fiji's Trade

Good Start for 1938

From Our Own Correspondent.

SUVA, June 2.

FIGURES published in the Fiji Royal Gazette concerning the trade of the Colony for the first quarter of 1938 dis close considerable increases over the corresponding quarter of 1937. Imports increased by £109,442 and exports by £110,325. Although imports showed such a high increase, duty paid amounted to £9,934 less.

Details were as follows:

Imports.

1937. 1938. £ £ Value . . .. 382,175 391,617 Duty 91.569 Wharfage 2,727 Tonnage Duty , 1,105 1,292

Exports.

1937. 1938. £ £ Sugar 139,098 Copra 81,775 Bananas .. .. 18,377 18,148 Molasses . . . . 3.427 4,658 Gold 121,871 Trochus 4,724 1,606 Other 43,270 23,932 Totals .. .. £280.763 £391.088