Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1951Vol. XXI, No. 8

Island Industries Now

p. 112 · Read in the full issue

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Making

Cooking Oil In Fiji

From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. March 1. fTK) a growing extent, Fiji copra is being 1 used locally for manufacturing pur poses. Soap, coconut oil and coconut meal have been made for many years by Union Soaps Pty., Ltd., and more recently Island Industries, Ltd., have entered the field with the manufacture of margarine in addition to oil and meal.

Island Industries has recently put three new products on the market. They are cooking oils, designed to meet the needs of the Indian population of Fiji. Much of the cooking oil now used in the Colony is imported from overseas.

Islands Industries, Ltd., is a subsidiary of W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji), Ltd.

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