More Price Rises In Fiji
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Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA. Sept. 12.
DURING the last week three com modities rose in price.
Local butter has gone up to 2/4 per puond in Suva, Navua and Nausori, and 2/5 elsewhere. Owing to the New Zea land exchange, NZ butter will now be somewhere in the vicinity of 3/1 per pound—if anyone has the- courage to im port it.
Petrol has gone up to 3/2 per gallon at Suva and Lautoka, with' the usual additional transport cost for other centres.
The Indian boycott of the Suva markets has at last been ended—with a win for the Indians. The price of most lines of vegetables has now increased.
Development of health work by the Anglican Mission, Papua, includes the establishment of base hospitals at Dogura and Oro Bay.