Fortunate Fiji
pp. 13-14 · Read in the full issue
From a Special Correspondent
Suva, Aug. 17.
is indeed one of the favoured * colonies.
Copra planters are now operating at a fair profit. Sugar is sure to be good for the next five years. The Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. is going ahead progressively with its plan to erect a pineapple factory at Lautoka, alongside the sugar mill. And 1938 should be the year that gives the true position and future of the Tavua goldfields.
With half a million pounds in reserve, Fiji is certainly well off.
Mr. Frank Hambridge, Sydney ore buydr and metallurgical accountant, who is well known in Papuan and New Guinea mining circles, departed with his wife for London by the Straithaird on September 7.
A new vessel, the Notou (4,200 tons) has been purchased in France by the Sodete le Nickel (formerly the Societe Caledonickel), to operate from Point Doniambo, New Caledonia,