But Only Just
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fav orable Balance for [?]N.Caledonia— But Only Just
JEW CALEDONIA’S most ex i pensive single item of imports, in 1954, was coal (and coke) om Australia. About 159,000 tons as taken across from Newcastle » the nickel smelters of Noumea, otal imports of Australian origin ere valued at 420,000,000 francs.
NC imported 1,300,000,000 fcs worth : goods altogether: and exported )ods —mostly metals —to the value 1,500,000,000 fcs.
France, Japan, the United States, 1 that order, were the Colony’s ;st customers. Australia took )°ds worth only 9,000,000 fcs