For Fiji
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Qantas Managers For Trade Promotion Australian Official For Fiji
• The Qantas manager in Fi 3 future will act as an agent of 1 Australian Commonwealth Gouc ment —the official title being T' Correspondent.
Although it is run quite iiJ pendently of the Government vice, Qantas Empire Airways a£ ally is owned completely by Australian Government.
In Sydney Morning Herald A March 18, the publisher of Pan Islands Monthly, Mr. R. W. Rob pointed out that, although * tralia spent millions across world on Embassies, Legations, 0 sulates, High Commissions, T] Agents, etc., Australia had noc ficial representative in Fiji. T] were Trade Department official many small countries; Aust:: sold Fiji goods worth oven millions per annum; yet Fiji ignored.
“What has Portuguese Tii and Cambodia and Trinidad that Fiji hasn’t got?” he askeo The head of the Methoj Church in Fiji, Rev. S. Gi Cowled, OBE, supported Mr. I son’s plea and pointed out thei portance of the growing relai ship between Australia and the British Colony.
The Minister for Trade, a days later, announced that,,; future, Qantas Empire Ahr managers in Fiji, Hawaii Mauritius would act as Austrg- Government Trade Correspond!: The system was commenced year in Kenya and Uruguay, had given excellent results. He ; that the action of Qantasa making their men available in i way was “a public-spirited gestid from which Australian trade wa benefit.