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Fiji Banana Outlook
MR. C. ROSS WALKER, manager of Fruit Distributors Ltd., the New Zealand imported-fruit distribution organisation, in a state ment in June reviewed Fiji banana industry prospects.
Fiji would resume exports to New Zealand in September and by December it was anticipated that regular cargoes of 24,000 cases per month would be coming forward, Mr. Ross Walker announced.
Substantial new areas in southern and eastern Viti Levu are now being planted, including a first venture by Fijians near Suva.
Four members of the NZ Govern ment Film Unit staff of Welling ton, are assisting in filming the Warner Bros, film '“His MJajesty O’Keefe, ’ at Deuba, Fiji. They are cameraman Randal Beattie, stage manager Peter Newman, electrician David Chaplin, and Derek Wright, prop man. Messrs. Newman and Chaplin went to Fiji in June, and the others in July. Production will last three months.
The New Zealand Gazette of May 29 confirmed the appointment of Mr. Lionel Harold Trenn, formerly Resident Agent of several Cook Islands, to the position of Com missioner of the Native Land Court of the Cook Islands.