Australian Strike Causes
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Samoan Shortages
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, July 12.
THE effect of the Australian miners’ strike is already being felt in the delayed arrival of a direct cargo steamer from Sydney. There is a severe shortage of flour, refined sugar and other foodstuffs usually imported from Aus tralia, as well as of building materials re quired for Government and private build ings now in course of construction.
In conformity with general Empire policy to restrict imports from dollar countries, it is also intended to restrict imports from the USA. Western Samoa has had a substantial dollar credit in recent years but following the drop in the price of Samoan cocoabeans and decrease in the export of same to the USA, our dollar earnings have been greatly reduced.
On the other hand, the supply of fresh meat to European and Samoan residents may be improved in the near future by a new project of the New Zealand Re paration Estates. They are clearing the former rubber plantation at Aleisa, an area of about 2,300 acres, and will start a cattle ranch and dairy farm, which is to be managed by Mr. D. M. Heise, a former dairy-farmer of New Guinea.