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Consulate In Tahiti
Letter to the Editor T AM an Australian business man and, not long ago, I visited Tahiti, with plans for the expansion of my trading to French Oceania. In
that connection, I wanted son official guidance; and when I foui that there was no official Australh representative there, but that the was a British Consul. I natural sought assistance at that Consulal I got no welcome at all—in fa< I was made to feel that, as an Au trahan, I created a bad smell in tl lofty British nose. The highest offici I was able to see there was n friendly to Australia and, when produced my credentials, bearing tl Prime Minister’s signature, he aske “And who is Mr. Menzies?”
Why does Britain maintain Consul there, if not for the help .
British people? Most of the re British business in French Ocean nowadays is done by New Zealai and Australia, and less and less 1 Britain. United States withdrew h Consulate from Tahiti some yea ago. It seems to me that Brita: should do the same, and that a con petent New Zealand or Australis Trade Commissioner should be place there.
I am, etc.,
Merchantman.
Sydney.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Axientu and two small daughters returne to Wau, NG, from Australian lea? in early August.