Want A Pacific
p. 66 · Read in the full issue
Island?
ACCORDING to New Zealand sources, there is a 14-acre island for sale in Fiji, 25 miles from Suva. It grows oranges and coconuts, “warm trade winds sough daily through the palms and warm seas crash on the beaches.” Price is £lOO. Many have showed Interest but so far there have been no takers.
The agents point out, that it is not all tropical paradise. 'On the mainland side are vast mangrove swamps that practi cally join it to Viti Levu.
Formerly the island belonged to Mr.
W. H. S. Moorhouse who experimented with rubber there. He last visited it in 1928 and no one appears to have been back since.
Seekers after romantic tropical islands might be interested to know that the New Zealand agent is a firm called Guar dian Trust.