Wau District News
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From Our Own Correspondent WAU, October 28. rE Wau District Show will be held on Sunday, November 8, 1953. It will be officially opened by the Administrator, Brigadier D. M. Cleland.
The Committee which has al ready received trophies for com petition, expects this will be the most successful show ever.
Residents believe that good entries in the various sections do much to advertise the agricultural potential of the district.
Mr. Bob Green, who was Secretary of Wau Club and Assistant Secretary of the Golf Club, and a popular member of the community, has resigned from New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., to take a position with Cottees Passiona, Ltd., at Goroka Eastern Highlands.
The Indian cost-of-living index in Fiji rose slightly during the third quarter of the year increases in the price of bread, sharps, potatoes, onions, sugar, goatmeat, tea and cocoa accounting for the rise of three points.
A record banana export from Fiji to New Zealand is expected this year. By early October, 264,000 cases had been shipped. The all-time record was 283,237 cases in 1925, though greater shipments have been made to Australia in the past.