Higher Bsi Postage
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HONIARA, March 10.
AIR mail postage rates to and from the British Solomon Islands Protectorate have beeij increased. Rates from Australian territories (including P-NG) to the Protectorate are now 1/1 letter mai| (per half oz) and 8d for Air Letter forms.
A heavy surcharge is levied on BSI residents receiving insuffil ciently stamped mail.
The refusal of the New Guinea Administration to provide two barges to carry traffic between Lae and Labu on Sundays has caused much inconvenience to the Morobe residents. Wau Advisory Council has asked Lae and Bulolo comj munities to take common action with Wau in again asking for thi week-end barge service.
The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (Mr. R. C. S Stanley, CMG), with Mrs. Stanley and Miss Stanley, left Honiara in the Solomons on MV Kurimarat on February 27 for Vila, New Hebrides. After carrying out a tour of the Southern New Hebrides the party was expected to return to Honiara about March 17.