How Gold Co.S Benefit
p. 32 · Read in the full issue
Fiji
THE statement is sometimes made In relation to industries established in Fiji that, while they add enormously to the exports of Fiji, a large portion of the money they earn leaves Fiji and the Colony does not get the benefit of it.
For that reason figures which have been published recently in relation to the Em peror and Loloma gold-mines in Fiji are interesting.
Last year the two companies, operating on the Vatukoula gold-field, paid out the following sums:—Wages. £148,642; income tax, £18,836; royalty on gold, £42,856; port and sendee tax, £8,546; duty and other taxes on direct imports, £10,326. In addi tion to Europeans they employed last year 210 Euronesians and 1,263 natives, making a total wages list of 1,613.