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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1957Vol. XXVIII, No. 4

[?] BSIP Deal

p. 151 · Read in the full issue

[?]Er’S And

[?] Rymead

[?] BSIP Deal [?] Plantations

E plantations and installations of Fairymead Sugar Company in the Russell Islands, BSIP, ! been purchased for an un osed sum by Lever’s Pacific .tations Pty. Ltd. Lever's have taken over the Yandina Copra d agency from Fairymead. imours of negotiations between 5 two large copra-producing oanies were current 12 months and a sum of £250,000 was men jd. irymead, which has extensive ests around Bundaberg, North msland, has not disposed of its 3 assets other than those in Bussell Group. It will still retain tations on Malaita and in other s. irymead has been established re Solomons since early in this ary, and probably its first in t there was through the island who were repatriated from msland sugar-cane areas to the nons when Australia adopted White Australia Policy, e Young family was connected both the South Seas Evangelical ion and with A. H. and E. ig and Co., the latter being the nt company of Fairymead and »ld Malayta Co. Fairymead and yta (probably a clerical error iginal documents) were formed ie Youngs in 1910, and in 1936 Malayta Co. was incorporated Fairymead. me members of the Young ly, notably Miss Florence ig, did social and missionary amongst the Solomon Islanders oyed in the family’s Queens establishment; and when these went back to the Solomons, Youngs were instrumental in tig up the SSE Mission, there continue the religious work igst them.