Soap-Making Enterprise

In Fiji

Remarkable progress is being made by the Fiji concern called Union Soaps Pty. Limited, which is operating in Suva under the manager ship of Mr. M. M. Brodie, and which produces a considerable and increasing variety of soaps and oils.

This company uses a considerable quantity of Fiji copra and all the tallow that the Colony of Fiji produces. Its products include ordinary washing soap, two or three varieties of good toilet soap, a special brand of edible coconut oil (for which there is a sharply increasing demand), mustard oil (much used as an article of diet by the Indians), peanut oil, coconut meal (in much demand as fodder for stock) and some smaller lines.

This enterprising Fiji company recently imported a good deal of new plant and the indications are that its turnover is increasing every month.

Rev. E, F. Roe, of the Marist Mission, Suva, Fiji, is now serving as a chaplain with the British Army in England.