Mother Button Factory

For Fiji

Governor of Fiji officially usd the Colony’s second shell ton factory early in June. • factory is owned by an i business man and former an, Mr. B. D. Lakshman, and ' cated on the outskirts of Lantoka, ■ xe Mr. McCown’s button fac- S which commenced operations ■ .r' ev !r“ a Year, it is equipped ■i the most modern German

I '."buttonmaking machinery, it

■; a present capacity of 200 gross buttons per hour and will employ 4 workers. * Lakshman intends to employ :®, fishing fleet to obtain -'.menus. Japanese are currently £3oo per ton for trochus in i—which makes for very ex onsive buttons. y

fl A recent interesting addition to Tahiti’s international colony is Mr.

Carlos Garcia-Palacios, late Deputy Director of the Radio Division at United Nations Headquarters, New York, who has settled in Tahiti after 30 years in international affairs. A. Chilean by birth, he has travelled widely on League of Nations and UN business. He speaks

five languages and has been on the staff of the International Labour Organisation, in Geneva, on UNNRA staff, and lately at UN head quarters. He plans to spend his re tirement making movies and record ings for use overseas on radio and television. He is Consul for the Re public of Chile in Tahiti.