Supplies
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Britain Buys Huge Whale Oil Supplies
IT is reported by the newspapers with complacency (which the growers will not share) that Britain “has scored a notable victory in the war for oil” by buying up the whole of the available supplies of whale oil in Europe, despite desperate German competition. There has been a record catch of Antarctic whales in the season just ended, return ing probably about 2,500,000 barrels, and the newspapers say that one result of this will be “comparative cheapness and abundance of margarine for British housewives.” If this report is true, it postpones for the present any hope of the Anglo-French Governmental author ity raising the London copra price of £l3/5/- per ton c.i.f.
Mr. Maynard Hedstrom, son of Sir Maynard Hedstrom, of Suva, Fiji, mar ried Miss Moira Dietrich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lance Dietrich, of Levuka. on March 12. The honeymoon will be spent in Australia.
Major Clive Brewster, of Suva, arrived in Sydney via New Zealand early in March and is spending a few weeks in Sydney and Melbourne.