Wartime Fiji Must Grow
p. 16 · Read in the full issue
Vegetables
THE Marketing Division of the Pro duction and Supply Board of Fiji has issued a report urging the Colony to increase its vegetable produc tion. It says that every acre of available land should be cultivated for this purpose immediately, to off-set the decreasing supply of vegetables from overseas, and the increased demand from military establishments.
There seems to be no good reason why a country like Fiji should not be com pletely self-supporting in vegetables. Cer tain varieties —such as onions and potatoes—will not grow satisfactorily on the coast, where there are native sub stitutes in yams and sweet potatoes, but all green stuffs grow well, and most tem perate zone fruits and vegetables can be produced on the high plateaus and fertile valleys of the interior of Viti Levu.
Mrs. Ellen Statham died in the War Memorial Hospital, Suva, Fiji, on October 10, at the age of 83. She came first to the Colony in 1914' as a member of the staff of A. M. Brodziak & Co., and later ran various businesses on her own ac count.