Fiji Business Man Visits
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N. Guinea
MR. A. E. T. CORRIE, governing director of the Sydney firm of Boxley Pty., Ltd., and well known director of Corrie &' Co., Suva, Fiji, left by Qantas plane on November 17, on a three weeks’ visit
to Papua and New Guinea.
Mr. Corrie is investigating con ditions in the territories with a view to opening new branches of Boxley Pty., Ltd., He said that a new company was formed recently in Fiji, known as Commercial En terprises (Fiji) Ltd., directors of which are Mr.
Corrie, Mr. C. H.
Hunt (Suva), and
Referring to conditions in the Colony, Mr. Corrie said that private enterprise was opening up a number of new in dustries. Machinery had been ordered from England for the production of candlenut oil, and something entirely new to Fiji was the production of “banana figs.’’ By a special process the banana is dried like a fig, and has a similar taste with an attractive banana flavour.
Commercial Enterprises (Fiji) Ltd., are interested in this new development and it is hoped to have banana figs packed in I lb. transparent cellulose con tainers and on the Australian market by Christmas.
Mr. Allan Doull (Auckland).