Fiji Gold Now Challenging
pp. 69-70 · Read in the full issue
Fiji Sugar!
BECAUSE Fiji gold mining interests are getting the full benefit of the in crease in the price of gold caused bv war conditions, the shares of the two principal Fijian mines, Emperor and Loloma, have been jumping about in a lively fashion on Australian Stock Exchanges during the month.
Australian, Papuan and New Guinea gold mines have not been allowed to secure the full amount of the war gains on gold—the Governments are taking 50 per cent, of it.
Indications are that in 1940 Fiji will be exporting gold to the value of no less than £1,000,000 per annum, and thus it will be running sugar a very close second in the list of Fiji’s principal exports. If anyone five years ago had said that the annual value of Fiji gold production would soon rival the annual value of Fiji sugar production he would have been written down as mad.
The German Official News Agency on November 9 announced that a German professor named Prigge has discovered a new lymph which renders the dysentery germ harmless.
Mr. Desmond Trevor Tilley, Deputy Chief Officer of the Suva Fire Brigade, recently married Miss Daphne Winifred King, of Auckland, N.Z., at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Suva, Fiji.