Valuable Property
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Tupai Atoll Company’S
PLANTATION de Tupai, the company which owns Tupai atoll, north of Borabora. has undergone some reorganisation, ac cording to a notice in Journal Officiel of French Oceania.
In 1951 the island was advertised for sale at the equivalent of £A160,000. It was then said to have 2,000 acres of cultivable land and a copra capacity of 1,000 tons per annum.
The present owners, according to the notice, are Mme Henriette Amedet, widow, of Papeete; M.
John A. Moon (Papeete) and Mme Modest Pommerais, widow (France).
They appear to have taken over from the late M. Amedet and a Mr.
Homes. The latter was probably an Englishman, long resident in French Oceania, who died last year. The company’s capital is 5 million francs (about £A35,000) in 500 equal shares. t Regimental plate and crested silverware to be used when the officers’ and sergeants’ messes of the Ist Bn , Fiji Infantry Regt. are hosts to the many visitors to the Battalion in Malaya is to be purchased with the help of a £3OO grant from the Lady Garvey Fund. The plate will return with the Battalion to Fiji, to become a permanent possession of the regiment.