Helping to Pay For Niue Lightering Serv[?]
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Niue Lightering Serv[?]
(From Our Own Correspondent) NIUE, Nov. e rpHE Administration introduced form of direct taxation to N Is. during October which is cal.
Port Service Tax. It is imposed all goods imported into Niue, w the strange exception of goods arr ing by post, at a rate of 2i per ce ad valorem.
Reason given for the new taxj that the Administration cannot m; the lighterage service pay in spite: the fact that the charge is 13/4 ; ton and is the highest in the Soil Pacific area.
By the time the goods so tai have passed through the hands of traders it will mean about 4 per ce rise in the cost of living for Em peans. Traders are already findl that the natives are buying 11 tinned goods, especially meat, 2 the number of fishing canoes < each evening is a noticeable res of high prices.
DR. J. M. Sclafer, Assist: Medical Officer in the Cook Islar returned to New Zealand in H vember from Rarotonga having 1 minated his service there.