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Western Samoa
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, July 15.
IT is expected that dollar re strictions which have been in operation in Western Samoa as in other British countries, will shortly be relaxed.
Western Samoa sells most of its cocoa to the United States and thereby, in 1953, earned about £5tg476,601. In the same year, it imported only £Stg2o2,ooo worth of goods from dollar sources. The business community of the Terri tory has been restive about this state of affairs for some time. It welcomes the move for relaxation of restrictions.
fl Mr. G. T. Roscoe, Assistant Director of Education, Papua-New Guinea, is doing a month’s educa tional survey of Eastern Papua and New Guinea.
The ordinance imposing en tertainment tax in Fiji was re pealed at the July session of the Legislative Council.