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Re-Export Racket Is To Stop Imported Goods Were Going From Fiji to New Zealand
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Oct. 27.
IN future it will not be so easy for Fiji residents, or visitors to the . Colony, to supply their New Zealand friends with scarce or rationed goods ex- Fiji. Many of these goods are to be con trolled, and an export licence will be necessary before they can be sent out of the country.
In April, 18 cases of assorted liquor were sent out of Fiji to New Zealand by a single ship; and in August the same ship carried 83 cases.
In the last few months such re-exports from Fiji have included cases of white shirts, drapery, tyres, wire netting, new cars and even porcelain baths all very scarce items in the socialistic paradise of New Zealand. A proportion of these goods, which should be Fiji’s, had been secured from dollar sources.
It has been noticeable, also, that hurri cane lanterns and kerosene lamps and stoves all of which are essential for people in the remoter parts of the islands —began to disappear when power shor tages developed in the Dominion as a result of its Government being unable to induce miners to hew sufficient coal.