Black Market De Luxe
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FIJI apparently has a black market that puts anything so far discov ered in Australia in the amateur class.
The “Fiji Times” reports that motor car fan belts, which normally sell at 4/6 or 5/6, are being sold by one dealer for
as much as £4. It is said that the pro cedure is for the prospective purchaser to go to a certain private house —only one person being admitted at a time.
There he pays over the £4, receives the fan belt and a receipt for 7/6. If he is not prepared to accept that, then there is no business.
Eggs are reported to have sold at 8/a dozen on the “black market” in Gum ming Street, Suva, in May—all sales being to restaurants, where one dollar (equal to about 5/- in Fiji currency) is charged for a meal comprising two eggs, bacon, bread and butter, and coffee.