Pacific Publications Ltd.

New Company to Operate in Fiji

IN order to handle more efficiently the overseas distribution of the Pacific Islands Year 800k —now established throughout the world as the standard reference book on the Pacific Islands —a company called Pacific Publications (Fiji) Ltd. has been registered in Suva. For the present, it will share the offices of W. H.

Grove & Sons (Fiji) Ltd., in the Bank of New South Wales Building, Suva. The directors of the new company are Mr. R.

W. Robson (managing director of Pacific Publications Pty., Ltd., Sydney), Mr. J. B.

Grove (Auckland) and Miss M. S. Bridges (Sydney).

Pacific Publications Pty., Ltd., of Syd ney, will, as heretofore, handle the dis tribution of the “Pacific Islands Monthly” and the Pacific Islands Year Book, in Australia; while the Fiji company will be responsible for Fiji distribution of the publications. The Suva office also will take care of Year Book oversea distribu tion arrangements generally.

Pacific Islands Year Book

The publication rights of the Pacific Islands Year Book, for North and South America, have been sold to the MacMil lan Company, of New York. It will be published, on September 26, as “The Paci fic Islands Handbook,” for distribution in North and South America only.

The 1944 edition of the Pacific Islands Year Book was published in June by Pacific Publications (Fiji), Ltd., and is being distributed by both the Sydney and Suva companies. The demand for the book is far in excess of the supplies com ing forward, which are limited by the wartime shortage of manpower and materials in the workrooms of the book binders. The publishers regret the delay being caused by these and transportation difficulties in fulfilling orders for the book; but every effort is being made to hasten production.