30-Years-Old Suva Business

Closes Down

From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, June 21. rW visitors to Suva over the last 30 years have failed to ride in the horse-carriages and, later, the taxis owned by “R. and B.” (Robinson and Ballantyne). The surviving partner, Mr.

W. A. Robinson, has recently decided to give up business —it is understood that the lease of his buildings (which are not by any means the handsomest ornaments

on Suva’s beach) has Expired, and the Government requires site for other purposes.

Probably another cause Mr Robin son’s retirement from bUi^i ness ' is the growing competition from t< ;he multitude of Indian taxicabs. In years Europeans have steadily disap IDeare( j f rom one trade after another.

Mr. A, L. Cook (better kno\- vn as “Fiji”

Cook) who has lived in the Seas Islands for over 45 years, settled down in Carlton, Victoria,*)-ij ve j n retirement.