Travellers to the Islands
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Fruit Distributors Ltd., the organisation wh,ch imports fruit into New Zealand from the Islands.
Lower left: Dr. G. Y. McCririck, of Scot land, who has joined the South Pacific Health Service in Fiji. Right: Mr. Brij Mohan, of Suva, returned there after vacationing in New Zealand.
To organise a mosquito control unit in the British Solomons and especially in the Honiara area, Mosese Natuna, of the Fiji Health Department, will spend six months in the area instructing Solomon Islanders.
A published summary setting out the disposal Fiji’s copra during 1953, shows that the Copra Board purchased 33,040 tons and had in hand 2,116 tons at the beginning of the year. Of this, 27,949 tons was crushed in the two local mills, the oil and most of the meal being exported; only 6,388 tons was shipped overseas for crushing, and 475 tons remained in stock at the year s end.
Decreased production in 1953, as compared with 1952, cost producers about £i million.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Walker travelled from Auckland to Apia per February Tofua. Mr. Ross Wa[?]ker is manager of