Fall In Rubber Prices

AS a result of the decision of the Anglo-American countries to cut off rubber supplies to Red China, the world price of rubber slumped sharply in mid-M*ay, and this was reflected in the rates offering in Papua. The price, how ever, remains at a rate that Papuan producers find quite profitable.

Ratu Josefa Cakobau, a member of the chiefly family of Somo Somo, Cakaudrove.

Fiji, died in Suva on May 1 after a short illness. During the first World War he went to France as a member of the Fiji Labour Corps. In his youth he was a Rugby footballer and a boxer.