£90,000 Bonus
p. 10 · Read in the full issue
For Indian Cane-Growers in Fiji
rpHE Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd., X in Fiji paid out £90,000 last month as a gratuitous payment to Indian cane-growers in the Colony. This re presented a bonus of 2/3 per ton for the 1940 cane crop, bringing the total bonus to 4/3.
Because of shortage of shipping, Brit ain is unable to take her normal sugar quota and the industry in Fiji is under a cloud at present. Only about two thirds of the crop will be exported this year.
The CSR Co. is working in close co operation with the Fiji Government in the matter and has voluntarily under taken to make no profit on treating and handling the unexportable portion of the cane crop.
Sugar storage space has become a problem and it was announced by the Government recently that the sugar crushing mills at Lautoka and Rarawai would close down for a short period until some of the accumulated stocks were shipped out of the Colony.
Mr. J. Leslie Johnstone, who served with the Fiji Administration for 34 years, died in New Zealand in mid- October at the age of 72. Born in NSW.
Mr Johnstone went to Fiji as a child with his father, a planter. After being educated abroad, he joined the Fiji Civil Service, and held a number of positions.
He retired in 1920 and had lived at Manurewa, NZ, with his family since 1924.