Nickel Trouble And Now Bad Flour
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AS it faces the New Year, New Caledonia is not happy in its economic prospects.
International Nickel reports a new process for refining nickel by electrolysis, shortening and ing the present process, as employed here. It also permits the easy recovery of such by-products as sulphur and selenium. If the use of this process (the development of which has taken eight years) allows North America to seriously under-cut the New Caledonia price, the effect here could be bad.
The bakers, newspapers, flour im-
porters, Chamber of Commerce, as well as the general public, are joined in a growing outcry against the edict of the French Ministry for Colonies, which has forced France to buy all its flour from France, Hitherto, NC has brought its A° u f m its nearest neighbour, Australia, even although this created d lopsided trade balance, because Australia buys so little from NC. Recen t shipments of flour from France have arrived in a very bad £ 0 n J? 1 on ‘ j We . an( * °f her troubles have developed on the long voyage. A good deal of bread lately has been unfit for consumption.