New Docks Company Being
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Raised In Fiji
Suva, Dec. 2.
ANEW Docks Company is at present being recruited in Fiji for service with the Americans in the South Pacific.
Major-General Maxwell Murray of the US Army recently asked the Governor of Fiji if 200 men could be made available to him in winding-up American military operations in Guadalcanal, where de mobilisation had left insufficient Ameri cans to do the necessary stevedoring work.
Major-General Murray said that the request was made -because of the ex cellent stevedoring service given the Americans in Bougainville in 1944 and 1945 by the Fiji Docks Company.
Ratu Sukuna, Secretary of Fijian Af fairs, is now recruiting the men for the new unit, and it is expected that they will leave for Guadalcanal by the end of the month.
Recent appointments to executive posi tions in the Banlc of New Zealand include three men who were formerly well-known in Fiji. They are: Mr. H. R. H. Chalmers, who retires from the general manageship and becomes a director; Mr. P. L. Porter, who becomes general manager; and Mr.
O. M. Samuel, who becomes an inspector.