Fiji's Record Trade
pp. 77-78 · Read in the full issue
THE Trade Report for Fiji, 1950, has been published and is available for sale from the Government printer for 7/6.
The Colony had a record year, total trade being £14,772,501 —over £900,000 better than the previous record year of 1949.
Overseas aircraft carried 10,964 people in or out of the Colony— over 7,000 of them coming or going through Nadi airport.
Count Nils Gyldenstolpe, head of the Ornithological Department of the Royal Natural History Museum of Stockholm, and the Countess, were met on their arrival in Sydney in early August by Qantas by the Chairman of Taronga Park Trust, Mr. E. J. Hallstrom. Mr. Hallstrom met the Count and Countess while on a recent visit to Sweden, and invited them to Australia. They will go to New Guinea to collect speci mens.