Growth Of Lautoka, Fiji
pp. 67-68 · Read in the full issue
NEW offices and residential quarters have been built recently for the Union Steam Ship Company Ltd., at Lautoka, Fiji—a town, incidentally, which is grow ing steadily in size as a result of the pros perity being enjoyed by the sugar industry.
A new building for the Bank of N.S.W. is under construction in Lautoka, close to the U.S.S. Company’s new office.
The Fiji Government contemplates the erection of a new block of Administration offices in the same locality.
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Sefton, of Koitaki Para Rubber Estates, Koitakinumu, Papua, are spending a few months’ holi day in Sydney.
Mr. Alex. C. Jones, of the Bank of New South Wales at Wau, returned to Austra lia by the Monotoro on February 19 after spending three years on the New Guinea goldfields.
Mr. Laurence, plantation manager of the New Zealand Reparation Estates in Western Samoa, left Apia recently by the Boren to spend leave in Europe.