New Company Operating
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Fiji Timber
New Company Operating on Vanua Leva
IN spite of the shortage of labour and a shortage of shipping, the develop ment of the timber industry of Fiji is proceeding rapidly. If this is main tained under peace conditions, the Fiji timber industry must become one of the most important in the Colony.
Behind Buca Bay, at the western end of the large island of Vanua Levu there are vast forests, and these timber re sources now are being worked and the timber shipped to Suva for local con sumption.
A company called Turners Timbers Limited has erected a large plant at the bottom of Buca Bay, at a place called Mayalalevu, and a road has been con structed from the site of the mill into the concession granted to the company for the conveyance of logs.
The organisation of such an enterprise is very difficult under war conditions, but anyone who develops the timber industry of Fiji at the present time is due for a rich reward.
Madame Armand Marlier died in Noumea, New Caledonia, on July 7.