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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1956Vol. XXVII, No. 2

Tip Top Ice-crea

p. 26 · Read in the full issue

After All —

Samoa Will Have Tip Top Ice-crea

THERE are more ways than of killing a cat—and of dti business —as was demonstr;: by an announcement from Auckl: early in September.

Recently PIM reported sta opposition in Apia to estabL ment of a New Zealand ice cn company which had applied f< permit to put in a factory thu Policy has long been againstd entry of any outside companies the face of the opposition th© cream company withdrew application for a business licer At the beginning of Septerr the company—Tip Top Ice Cr Co., largest ice-cream compam New Zealand, and with interest Fiji—announced that Tip Top: Cream (Samoa) Ltd., had registered in Apia with a capita £20,000. All the capital is Ss owned.

The New Zealand company supply equipment and techi know-how, including some sta;j is expected that production commence about next April.