Noumean Flour Trade

Mav Be Stopped at Any Moment

RETURNING from Noumea recently, Mr. George Step, managing director of C. Sullivan, Ltd., Sydney merchants, held out little hope for the retention of Australia’s trade in flour with New Gale donia. The surplus in Prance had led to the French Government passing a decree that all Colonies must import flour from j i v,r,mpi£md- because of its distance the homeland, because oi its distance from France, New Caledonia had been allowed to continue buying Australian

flour for the time being, but it was neces sary to get special permission for each consignment—and it was feared that this arrangement would not continue. His company exported 7,000 tons of flour a year to New Caledonia, where they did not want the French flour, because of the deterioration which occurred during the long voyage.

Rev. G. T. Warren, formerly of the Melanesian Mission station <at Mara vovo, has taken up work in the parish of St. Martin’s, Croydon, Eng land.