Behind The Fan
p. 24 · Read in the full issue
(Japanese buyers, in August, were offering £9 per ton, Suva, for copra, although the local firms had ceased buying copra for cash. The “catch” was that, for every £9 worth of copra bought by the Japanese, the planter or trader had to buy from £25 to £3O worth of Japanese goods.)
Little Freddie Fiji ; “Mum! Look at the pretty girl! What a LOVELY fan she has!”
Mother Britain : “Come, my child, I don’t like you to talk to strangers.
There is much behind that fan that you cannot see ”