Islands Trader Retires
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MR. F. R. LA VIS, who has had many associations with Pacific Islands trading, recently re tired from the firm of W. S. Tait and Co. Pty. Ltd.
He joined the firm 52 years ago as a typist and stenographer (there were no female typists in those days), and later became a buyer in the islands section.
As the years passed, Mr. Lavis developed wider interest in the firm and in 1950 joined the board of directors.
He was well known throughout the Pacific, but particularly in New Caledonia.
In recent years one of his main duties was to meet the firm’s clients when they came to Sydney and to attend to their needs.
Mr. Lavis was a prominent Mason, and an enthusiastic worker for Red Cross.
Mr. Lavis was the guest of the managing director of the firm, Mr.
C. E. Tait, at a dinner party at the Australian Club, Sydney, to mark his retirement.