Levers Make Seven Millions

Profit

A RECORD profit of over £7,000,000 was reported by Lever Bros. Ltd., Eng land, soap manufacturers, etc., at the recent annual meeting.

Mr. Francis d’Arcy Cooper (chairman) in the course of an address, said that the company had extensive coconut plan tations in the Solomon Islands which had been developed over the past 35 years, and would develop even more if it were not for the lack of labour.

Mr. D. C. McFadyen, manager of Burns Philp (S.S.) Co. in American Samoa is at present visiting: Svdnev.

THIS photograph, taken about 20 years ago in Sydney, shows some interesting people.

On the left are Martin Johnson and his wife, who have since become world famous as cinema-operators in wild parts of the earth. Mr. Johnson, then, had just come back from making a film of life on Lord Howe Is. (Ontong Java), 8.5.1, He was killed in U.S.A., in a plane crash, only a few months ago.

The central figure is Mr. H. A. Mark ham, well known and highly esteemed as “Marko.” He fought in the Boer War, and lived for some years on Ontong Java, where he was described as “a sort of king.” He went to the Solomons about 20 years ago, and has never since left the group. He has a beautiful home on the Marovo Lagoon, and his estate, Segi, is one of the show plantations of 8.5.1. (Photo by courtesy of R. F. Thomson.)