Notes On The Markets
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Shell dealers in Sydney this month reported that there had been a downward trend in the trochus market. Their quotations in May were from £5 to £l5 a ton lower than in April.
One dealer also reported a slight downward trend in the pearl shell market.
The price of New Guinea pea nuts had been forced down by Id to 2d per lb by the arrival in Aus tralia of shipment of peanuts from China. A release of Kingaroy pea nuts contributed also to a reduc tion in the price of New Guinea peanuts. t About 200 new cars were imported into New Caledonia in April and May—a sign of the continuing prosperity of the Colony.
ff Miss Jennifer Goodsir, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Goodsir, of Suva, Fiji, will be married in June to Mr. Ivan Crooks, the Fiji representative of the London Liver pool and Globe Insurance Company.
The young couple are well-known and personally popular, and the wedding will be a social highlight in the Fijian capital.