C.S.R. Co. Expands

SOME 250 tons of machinery to pro vide for extensions to the operations of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co.

Ltd. arrived in Fiji from New Zealand in April by the C.S.R. steamer “Fiona”. The machinery, which will be used in three raw sugar mills, was brought out from England to Auckland by the N.Z. Ship ping Co.’s motorship “Otaio”.

A ship to shore telephone service has been installed at Apia, Western Samoa.

IN this photograph, taken at Jaluit, kindly forwarded for publication, there are Japanese officials of the Man date Administration (Marshall and Caroline Islands) and their native assist ants. It is most interesting, as show ing how Japan is carrying on her work in the tropical islands.

Says our Correspondent:—In the front row are some members of a youths’ social welfare association. In the second row are Japanese officials, of

whom the Governor—an energetic im partial Administrator—is the eighth from the reader’s right. The fourth from the reader’s right, the one with the shoulder straps, is the Chief of Police, a very jovial man.

In the other three rows are native police boys and other minor officials from various islands of the Group. Most of them are graduates from the Japan ese schools in the Mandate, and who consequently understand Japanese, all

instruction in such schools being given in that language.

Members of the social welfare associ ation wear brown uniforms on special occasions; but native government officials at all times, when on duty, wear white drill clothing, usually starched and ironed. They are expected to be always neatly appareled, down to shoes and socks, bare feet not being permiss ible.