Fiji and N.Z.

“P.I.M.” Representative in Fiji and N.Z.

THE advertising manager of the “Pacific Islands Monthly,” Mr. Jack Debert, left Sydney in April by the Niagara for New Zealand and Fiji, and is at present in Suva. The circulation of the magazine in Fiji has grown steadily during recent years, and the object of Mr. Debert’s visit is to make better arrangements for distribution there, in view of developments brought about by the Fiji gold discoveries.

Interest in gold, and the continued improvement in the copra market, are causing rapid improvement in economic conditions in all the Territories.

Mr. Debert, in June, will spend a couple of weeks in New Zealand, and will return to Sydney on June 29.

Sir Thomas Henley, K.B.E., who has been prominent in Australian public life for over 30 years, fell from a ferry in Sydney Harbour on May 14, and was drowned. He will be remembered by many residents in New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, to which territories he made several visits. Sir Thomas Henley wrote four books dealing with the Pacific Islands: “Fiji. Land of Promise,”

“New Guinea,” “Australia’s Pacific Islands Mandates,” and “A Pacific Cruise.”