New Cigarette Industry
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Early Start for Suva's New Cigarette Industry
From Our Own Correspondent THE Fiji Tobacco Co., whose factory at Walu Bay, Suva’s new industrial area, is nearing com pletion, will start the manufacture of cigarettes towards the end of August.
Local workers will be employed, but the tobacco and all other materials will be imported.
It is expected that the local cigarette will be cheaper than the imported product—a point which is likely to ensure a market in a country where a majority of the wage-earners usually find a gap be tween wages and the cost of living.
Many Fijians, both men and women, smoke the saluka, made of carefully-selected dried banana leaves, but they often prefer a “tailor-made” if they can afford it.
U Mr. R. E. Shaw, FRCS, formerly of Kenya, has taken up an appoint ment with the Medical Department, Fiji.