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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 July 1944Vol. XIV, No. 12

Fiji Sugar

p. 14 · Read in the full issue

Industry Returning to Normal

SUVA, June 29.

CANE crushing commenced about the third week in June, at all the Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s mills. Ample mill labour is reported to have been offered.

The political situation seems to be quiet.

The investigation by Professor Shep hard is proceeding. The section of the Indian community interested in cane has come forward and Professor Shephard has been well received wherever he has car ried out his investigations.

Five German residents of Samoa who were interned in New Zealand at the end of 1939, have now been repatriated to their homes in Western Samoa. They are either in ill health or of advanced age.