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Flour In Tonga
IT must cost real money to eat bread in Tonga these days. Figures supplied by A. Cowley & Sons, bakers, of Nukualofa, to a firm of flour millers in Sydney, indicate that they pay over £3O per ton for flour.
The cost of flour in Sydney, where Tonga is now getting its flour, is about £l2/10/-, of which £2 is Government tax.
Fiji, too, has it bread worries; as indi cated ’in an article elsewhere in this issue, the cost of a loaf of bread in Suva is now 10d.
Captain Robert Bruce, well known in South-West Pacific waters, is at present stationed in Sydney in the Ordnance Branch of the Royal Navy.