Pim Representative
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Stationed In Fiji
r:E Auckland representative of the Pacific Islands Monthly, Mr] James P. Shortall, will arrive in Suva in May, and will be ’stationed in Suva for some months as correspondent of the Pacific Islands Monthly and business repl resentative of Pacific Publications Pty., Ltd. Mr. Shortall is a well! known writer on Islands affairs. I Until office accommodation has been arranged, Mr. Shortall maj be contracted in Suva at the Grand Pacific Hotel, or through Steel’s Central News Agency, Suva.
New Handbooks
During his stay in Fiji, Mij Shortall will do much of the worjj of compilation of the new Handbook of Fiji. Pacific Publications Ltd| will publish, before the end of 1953 a two Handbooks which are now much! in request—one covering Papua and New Guinea, and one covering Fiji. They will contain all the usual official and statistical inform mation, lists of traders and a Directory of Residents, arrange® according to administrative districts} The compilation of the Handbook of Papua-New Guinea is now well advanced. The compilation of Handbook of Fiji will follow im* mediately—and the latter should be in circulation before the Royal visit in December.