Savings Bank For G. & E.
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ANEW Ordinance of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony provides for the establishment of a Government Savings Bank within that Colony.
Branches will be opened wherever re quired; and the rate of interest on de posits will be fixed from time to time hv the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.
Secretary-General Haumant, interim Governor of Tahiti, left for France via Canada by the Vairune in March. .
The Tahitian ship “Orohena,” which arrived in Papeete in February from the US to commence on mter-island service in the French archipelago, has been obliged to visit New Zealand for repairs as the Papeete dry-dock is not large enough.