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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 11

Oil Fuel Distribution

p. 143 · Read in the full issue

In Islands

THE distributing organisation of

. the Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd., in the Islands —especially in ipua-New Guinea and Fiji—is :ing inspected in June and July r Mr. J. D. Rogers, a Director of ie Co. whose special responsibility the Islands marketing.

The Co. now has bulk ocean rminals at Fort Moresby and Lae; id in Fiji it has practically com eted (at a cost of £122,000) the instruction of a bulk ocean ter inal at Vuda Point, from which ill come over 1| million gallons mually for the planes using Nadi ternational airport.

Mr. Rogers served in both wars, e was General MacArthur’s first ustralian Liaison Officer and later i became Director of Military In slligence of the Australian Forces. e has been for some time in New brk and is now making his first isit to the Islands since the war.