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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1952Vol. XXIII, No. 3

For Norfolk Is.

p. 44 · Read in the full issue

‘Flying Butcher’S Cart’

NAC has flown some large con signments of meat from Auck land to Norfolk Island in recent months—79o lbs, on August 31, be ing the biggest.

Norfolk is reported to be increas ingly dependent on fresh food supplies from New Zealand—an ab surd situation, because almost any kind of fodstuff, including stock, can

be produced in abundance on this sub-tropical island. Norfolk’s chief industry is the entertainment of NZ holiday makers.

The NZ Ministry of Works has almost completed four new homes for European officials at Niue Island. These include a new Residency placed on the upper levels of the island. Two of the others axe already occupied and the third nearly ready for occupation.

Mr. R. E. Hendricksen has beeii appointed Chief Surveyor of Wese tern Samoa,

Typical of the young men (educates Fiji-born Indians) with whom lies a larga part of the future of Fiji. This is Mn Gyani Das, editor of “Jhankar”, Hindi-English monthly newspaper, authoo of a number of books, and proprietor oo the Tara Press, of Nasinu, Fiji.