Operative Store
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[?]E Of Rising Costs
a Residents Form
SUVA, June 1.
E increasing cost of living is naking itself so sharply felt imong all classes that even the jr-paid Europeans are seeking i of combating it. ie Suva Co-Operative Associa has been formed under the rmanship of Mr. Stan Mayne, ;al optician, and premises have opened in Waimanu Building, ibership has already risen to ly 100 and sufficient volunteers been available to ensure the being open for business in the noons from Monday to Friday, on Saturday morning. present, stocks are being ined mostly from local ware es. It is hoped to supplement * purchased by direct imports, embership grows, ods are sold slightly below ;nt retail prices and the bulk le net profits will be returned lembers in the form of cash ends, at the end of each trad fear.
On The Nose!
How a Gibbes Sepik Airways Norseman plane finished up when it made a forced landing on a beach some 12 miles from Aitape, New Guinea, a short time ago. Pilot Roy Shaw handled it skilfully and the two European pas sengers (Cpl. Hanley, of the PIR, and Mr. L. C.
Naughton, of the Public Health Department) and several natives were uninjured. The plane was later towed to the nearby, little - used Malol airstrip and, when repaired, was able to take off.