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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1990Vol. 60, No. 10

Samoan merger

p. 35 · Read in the full issue

WESTERN Samoa has merged the Economic Development Board and the Commerce Board to form the Department of Trade, Industry and Commerce. Finance Minister Tuilaepa Sailele said the move helps the push for new overseas trade and markets.

Mineral million JAPAN is providing Fs3 million (USSI.99 million (over the next three years to aid mineral exploration on Fiji’s main island of Viti Levu. The Fiji mineral survey is one of 15 which the Metal Mining Agency of Japan is carrying out in developing countries. □