Business in Fiji
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Banno’s New Business in Fiji
tfG the busier merchants [ traders in Fiji to-day is Banno, a Japanese. He is own and appears to be regarded. ct, some of the Europeans iians who are interested in tmerous manganese mines Viti Levu look upon him something approaching i —he has been buying so langanese for Japan that he e something towards holding local price of the ore. is the Mr. Banno who, • the unfortunate incident •1 Harbour in December, aded in Tonga and other
agoes thereabouts, as Banno
M pointed out more than the years before the Pacific anno Brothers seemed to ?presentatives everywhere * the interests of trade, they a great deal about the and organisation of our Pacific islands, mno has informed pre-war here that during the war a the Philippines; and that, the war, he and other business men would like
e unhappy affair forgotten,
expected that Mr. Banno, ae end of this year, will us own trading establish- Suva and Lautoka.