Profit Over £12,000,000

Operations of Unilever Combine

IT was announced at the annual meet ing of Lever Brothers and the Uni lever Group, in London in May, that the profit distributed to shareholders was £12,250,000.

This is the international combine which now controls the world’s vegetable oil markets, and, apparently, also the whale oil market.

The combine, last year, received in all countries, about £200,000.000 for soap, margarine, edible fats and various food stuffs.

Negotiations regarding the construction of two new British liners for service in the Pacific, between Canada and Aus tralia, have apparently been resumed, ac cording to a recent statement made at Vancouver by Mr. J. N. Greenland, gen eral manager of the Union Steam Ship Company.

Mr. C. H. Beach, who served for 10 years in the Wellington City Council, N.Z., arrived in Fiji in May to take up the post of Engineer to the Suva Town Board.