Nickel-Chrome Economy ?
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Will New Caledonia Have A
Post-war Prospects as They Appear to H. E. L. Friday
Noumea, May 19
of the shrewdest traders in the \J South Pacific, a man as well-known in Sydney as he is in the Hebrides and New Caledonia, recently expressed the opinion that after the war the islands will go back to the same sleepy state ■ and the same sort of economy as prevailed before the war.
This generalisation contains some ele ment of inevitable truth, and the return
and stepping-stones on the once threat ened route between America, New Zea land and Australia.
The answer to the question, “Shall we ever be the same again?” is, “We shall” —plus any improvements and develop ments that, have occurred during the war and are of use in a peacetime world. In general, the Pacific trader, planter and miner, and also the Pacific housewife, will be back roughly where they were before,