Samoans

Van Camp Must Teach

Jap Fishing Methods

ACCORDING to an Australian Commonwealth Government publication, Fisheries News letter, Van Camp Sea Food Co. of California has secured a five-years lease of the Pago Pago cannery from the owners, Eastern Samoa Government. Terms of payment are said to be $5,000 per month, or s2i per short ton of fish processed, frozen, canned, or stored for ship ment, whichever is the greater.

Other terms appear to be that the Van Camp people will see to it that Samoans are trained in the Japanese fishing techniques and operation of the cannery during this period.

Before Van Camp took a lease of the cannery, the US Bureau of Customs gave a ruling that foreign fishing vessels would be permitted to land fresh or frozen fish, taken on the high seas, at the cannery, the fish becoming the property of American Samoa and being duty free as far as export into the United States is concerned. This means that, should British-owned fishing vessels also arrange to deliver fish to Van Camps at Pago Pago, that fish would be given the same privi leges, which, in effect, means a market in the United States; the cannery arranges shipment.

f Sir Alport Barker, recently re tired from the position as Chairman of the Board of the Fiji Visitors' Bureau after 24 years’ service, eleven years as chairman. He will con tinue as a member of the Board, of which Mr. W. G. Johnson is now chairman.

Americans visiting Fiji for periods of less than four months will no longer require visas, so long as their passports are valid for at least six months from date of ar rival, they possess a return or through travel ticket, and have “ad equate funds.”