Fiji Company

Whites Travel Forms Fiji Company

WHITES Travel Service Ltd., New Zealand, has formed local company in Fiji conduct its extending Fiji bus ness. The nominal capital £50,000.

The directors are Sir Hugh Ra/ (Chairman), Mr. David P. Ra< (Deputy Chairman), Mr. E.

Robinson (Managing Director), aj Mr. J. N. Falvey. The Secrets is Mr. O. A. Taylor, of Prii Waterhouse & Co. Ltd.

Mr. R. T. Parkes, who has be manager for Fiji for the pare company, will manage the m company and has been appoint alternate director.

The share capital has been conti buted both by the parent compa in New Zealand and by B interests.

With its connections in N Zealand, Australia, and Fiji, a associations with travel agents a air and shipping lines overseas i Fiji Company will have a powen influence on Fiji’s tourist trade., Mr. Robinson said that company would continue to open in Suva and Lautoka as gene travel agents. He confiden expects that Whites’ tours to I from New Zealand, Australia s North America will be stepped to a new high level.

More frequent Kings and Que; Roads services will be run withi augmented fleet of modern coacl; Meanwhile the Transport Com Board approved the operation j sightseeing tours around Lauti and Suva by Whites.

The Board also decided that fares on Whites express coao running between Suva and M and Lautoka should not be creased, as previously suggested: a member of the Transport Com Board.

The Board’s Chairman, Mr. O Reay, said that Whites Tn Service was primarily intended! tourists, but it also filled a n useful local need in provid comfortable travel at a cheap for persons who would otf wise travel by taxis or private ♦ The Board agreed to leave i matter as it was until either WF Travel Service applied for a increase, or there was clear evidt that they were taking busi; away from stage carriers. t Mrs. Margaret Banchick, 29, was taken seriously ill while atd the US cargo ship, Sonoma, in j (see August PIM, page 24) and ft to Suva, left Fiji recently by to join her husband in Francisco.