Shipping and Exports
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Both Increase in Fiji
SUVA, April 5.
AS shipping facilities have improved, trade has increased between Fiji and New Zealand. Figures released recently show an overall' improvement in exports from the Colony to New Zea land during the first quarter of 1946 as compared with a similar period in 1945.
Most marked improvement was in bananas (33,000 cases in 1946, 24,000 in 1945); citrus (1,025 cases in 1946, 45 in
1945); coconut meal (300 bags in 1946, nil in 1945); peanuts (578 bags In 1946, 6 in 1945).
Two well-known Papuan families will be united when Miss Peg Rutledge and Mr. Trevor Ward (whose engagement has recently been announced) marry. Miss Rutledge is the daughter of the late Mr.
C. G. Rutledge (of Misima Island) and Mrs. Rutledge (now of Toowong, Bris bane); and her fiance is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. E. I. Ward, of Veimauri Plantation, Papua.