Indian Trading Co’S
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New Suva Building
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Aug. 21.
THE Vishal Bharteeya Company, Ltd.’s, new building in Waimanu Road, Suva, was formally opened by the managing director (Mr. Vishnu Deo, MLC) on August 18, when the company entertained a large number of guests at morning tea.
Portion of the new building is occupied by the offices of the Indian Government’s Commissioner in Fiji.
The company was registered in 1945 after an Indian syndicate, of which Mr.
Deo was a member, had bought the valu able Waverley site. The purchase price has not been disclosed, but at the open ing ceremony Mr. Deo said that in 1945 the company was offered £25,000 for the land. In the light of present freehold values in Suva, he estimated the value at not much under £lOO,OOO.