The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 June 1939Vol. IX, No. 11

A Useful Catalogue.

p. 21 · Read in the full issue

I N 1832, the English firm of Ransomes Sims and I Jeffries, Ltd., built their first lawn mower and the progress that has been made in 100 years is shown in an attractive catalogue just issued by the Company. Profusely illustrated, it depicts the wide variety of lawn mowers manufactured to suit individual requirements, from the small hand-mower for the garden lawn to the large “gang” type for heavy work.

Numerous aerodromes in the Dutch East Indies are equipped with Ransomes mowers for main taining large tracts of land.

Interested Islands residents should write to

Ransomes Sims and Jeffries, Ltd., Ipswich, England, for a free copy of this comprehensive brochure.*** Mr. J. G. Sommerfield, manager of the Bank of N.S.W. at Levuka, Fiji, recently married Miss Octavia Jackson, of New Zealand.