[?]utch New Guinea
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New Trade Between [?]ustralia and [?]utch New Guinea
PHE economic and financial L situation of The Netherlands has so much improved that the itch guilder has almost become rd currency This has enabled e Netherlands Government to ° \r a n, ce^ amount of pounds Netherlands New Guinea to ike purchases abroad. It goes (■bout saying that an important rt 91 those purchases will b Q ide in Australia.’”
Phis was stated by the Nether ids Consul-General, Dr H J velt, at a luncheon on the Royal hiey 2a n nes ’ ship Sibigo, in s?® Sydney on May 26 t ri P, in a regular service ween Australia and Netherlands G^ lne ™ North Borneo and allan . d - The service will be rated by two ships of the Royal erocean Lines, Sinabang and >r. Levelt said: “Trade relations ween Australia and Netherlands v X u i nea hav e been negligible, eugn lack of communication and cui ’rency. However, me Dutch 310 Australia’s nearest ghbours, and the Netherlands Australian parts of New Guinea only divided by an imaginary —it is obvious that both the berlands and Australia will ent by a close co-operation, t is a great satisfaction to find - there is in Australia, as there ci my country, a growing con nsness of our close relationship.”