NZ Petroleum Firm
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Enters Fiji Trade
Prom Our Own Correspondent T„„ „ ... SUVA, March 22.
HE British Petroleum Company of New Zealand is about to start business in Fiji, with W. R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji) Ltd. as its local representatives.
In addition to ordinary business, the company will service the NZNAC and RNZAF planes in Fiji. It will hold stocks of all classes of oils at Suva, where tanks are now being built.
Sir Peter Buck, who was in New Zealand in February, attending the Pacific Science Congress, said that he had enough work planned ahead in Honolulu to keep him busy for many years but that he hoped to make more frequent visits to New Zealand in future.
He said that he would attend the meet ing of the South Pacific Commission, of whose Social Development Committee he is a member, at Noumea, in May.