[?] I Rice Production

the rice season just ended, Fiji produced 14,820 tons of milled rice from the 34,966 acres ited. This quantity failed to t local requirements and 603 i valued at £47,783 were imported the Colony. here are indications that not all ;he locally grown rice was sold the growers due to large stocks nported (and presumably better, less expensive) rice being on d at the time that the local ) came onto the market. big rice development plan is )resent being prepared in Fiji.

Iss Jan Eadie, of Port Moresby, ved in Sydney on the liner 010 in January. She was on her to visit her grandparents in r Zealand. Miss Eadie has lived i her parents in New Guinea five years.