Samoan Banana Inquiry
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Re-Opened
Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Apia, Aug. 22.
IN spite of strong protests by European banana growers and a large majority of Samoan banana shippers (700 out of a total of 900), the Acting Admini strator has re-opened the inquiry into the working of the banana scheme and the methods of the Produce Inspector. The inquiry was proceeded with on the sth and 6th, but was then adjourned until August 25.
Mr. James E. Kennedy, an old pioneer of Fiji, recently died at Nadi, aged 84.
Going to Suva from Australia in 1870, he took up land on the Ba River and grew cotton. Later he was master of several trading vessels*in the Group. At one time he owned the Waimanu Hotel, on the Rewa River.