Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1951Vol. XXI, No. 10

Burns Philp Buys More

p. 106 · Read in the full issue

Page 106106

Australian Property

CONTINUING their post-war policy of buying merchandising businesses on the Australian mainland, Burns Philp & Co. in April completed the ac quisition of the old-established Single ton (NSW) warehouse business of Grainger & Falkiner Pty. Ltd.

The founder of the business was Mr.

John Grainger who commenced opera tions as a storekeeper in 1876 in a small building. The business now occupies new and palatial premises on the original site.

Mr. J. B. Mawson, formerly headmaster of the Suva Boys’ Grammar School, died in New Zealand, on April 20, aged 60.

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