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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1949Vol. XIX, No. 12

Dearer Cars In Fiji

p. 71 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. July 2.

THE hopes of people who have postponed their orders for new British motor-cars, in the belief that prices will drop, have been knocked on the head. A Suva importing firm has announced that increased shipping freights will mean an early increase in price of from £3O to £6O per car. It is added that other price-additions may be looked for in the future.

Fairly frequent shipments of British vehicles have reached Fiji in the post-war years.

Mr. Ray Bentley has been appointed manager of the P-NG Administration sawmill at Kerevat, New Britain.