In Australia
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Ocean Is. Phosphate Arrives In Australia
THE first shipment of Ocean Island phosphate since the Pacific war started arrived in Melbourne on August 29, on the steamer “Triona.” Un loading of the 9000-ton load began immediately as the supplies of Makatea (French Oceania) phosphate, upon which Victoria has had to rely, were practically exhausted.
Mr. A. H. Gaze, general manager for the British Phosphate Commission, said that “Triona” had now begun regular runs to Nauru and Ocean Island, and that next year a record tonnage of phos phate would be exported from the two phosphate islands.