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Fiji’S Garden Island
THE following information about a new rest house at Taveuni (the Garden of Fiji) was issued by the Fiji Public Relations Office recently: “The Rest House, which is at Waiyevo, has two bedrooms, each containing two single beds. The rates charged for each visitor are 5/- a day, 30/- a week, or £5 a month. Services provided include those of the caretaker for the cooking of meals.
Visitors must provide their own food, fire wood, ice, petrol and kerosene. All can if required, be bought locally.
“The Rest House contains all the furni ture normally required by visitors, and household linen, cutlery, crockery, towels, mosquito nets, kitchen utensils and petrol pressure lamps are provided.”
By way of extra inducement they say “Taveuni is one of the. most fertile of the islands of Fiji. Coconut plantations stretch almost without a break along the northern, western and southern coasts.”
Taveuni’s rest house sounds like the
ideal way of taking an off-the-beaten track holiday. Many of Australia’s home less thousands would rush it with their ears back —a two-bedroom furnished house (even if it is of native material) with the services of a cook thrown in would sound like heaven to them.