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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1954Vol. XXV, No. 4

MacRobertsons Buy NG

p. 16 · Read in the full issue

Cocoa Plantation

IT was officially announced on No vember 10, that Macßobertson Pty. Ltd., Australia’s biggest chocolate manufacturers, had pur chased a 1,000-acre cocoa plantation in the Markham Valley, New Guinea. (See PIM, Oct., page 42).

II Mr. Harold Gow, Burns Philp’s well known and respected manager at Apia, Samoa, has gone to New Zealand for urgent medical atten tion. „ , If The inspection by Mr. Hayden Smith (British Australian Tobacco Co.) of tobacco-growing lands in the Sigatoka area is being followed with keen interest in Fiji.

IT Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Palmer of Levuka, Fiji, recently celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary.

They were married in Levuka in 1904.