. Stewart's hand book of the Pacific islands; a reliable guide to all the inhabited islands of the Pacific Ocean, for traders, tourists and settlers. e population amounted to fifty, all of these were missionaries connected with the Church of EnglandMelanesia!! Mission, and the remainder were engaged in trading or in employ-ments connected with trading. Thirty-tliree were British subjects. Plantingoperations by white men had at that time scarcely been commenced, the totalar^a under cultivation by white men, entirely in cocoanuts, not exceeding onehundred acres in all. It was, however
. Stewart's hand book of the Pacific islands; a reliable guide to all the inhabited islands of the Pacific Ocean, for traders, tourists and settlers. e population amounted to fifty, all of these were missionaries connected with the Church of EnglandMelanesia!! Mission, and the remainder were engaged in trading or in employ-ments connected with trading. Thirty-tliree were British subjects. Plantingoperations by white men had at that time scarcely been commenced, the totalar^a under cultivation by white men, entirely in cocoanuts, not exceeding onehundred acres in all. It was, however, already recognised that the Solomonswere eminently suited for extensive cultivation of the cocoanut palm. The Resident Commissioner established himself on the Island of Tulagi,off the south coast of Florida, in 1897, and m 1899 a second Governmentstation was established at Gizo, m the New Georgia Group. A third Govern-ment station was established at Shortland Island, in the Bougainville Straits,m 1906, and a fourth at Auki, on the island of Malaita, in 1909. In 1910 afifth Government station was formed in the Marovo L,agoon. The seat of CbeO. «mca $al{$ Jlseiicy Cimlfea Importers, Exporters & Buying Agents. 170 Clarence Street,SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. 9 Commerce Street, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND. SOME OF THE LINES WE EXPORT TO THE ISLANDS Sugar Groceries Wines Lager Soft Goods Salmon Canvas Duck Flour Sel-f-Raising Flour Leather Goods Produce SOME OF THE LINES WE IMPORT FROM THE ISLANDS Trocas ShellsPearl Shells Tortoise Shells Ivory Nuts Sandalwood Coffee Beans Hemp Grain &c. TRADERS art iinited to write or cabk their emiuiries \vhi(ii we guarantee to attend to promptly. ONE REASON why Merchants and Iraders slioukl get our quotations before buying elsewhere is that we are Manufacturers Agents, therefore our prices arc lower than others at all times. Cable Address: OSAGEN, Sydney or Auckland. 248 STKVVAUT S BOOK metrical and theniiomctrical readings, have been taken at the (k&g
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