D. R. A. Eden For

Bsip Job

The man who did more to put

New Zealand Reparation Estates,

Western Samoa, on a sound basis,

Mr. D. R. A. Eden, OBE, has been appointed manager of the

British Solomon Islands Trading

Corporation.

HE will arrive in Honiara to commence his new job about the middle of October. Mr. Eden ?nl 1 i’ ec L from Reparation Estates in 1956—the year before they were handed over to Samoan control and became Western Samoa Trust Estates Corporation.

Yhe Reparation Estates were termer German plantation proper after b ? en War I. Their profits —which have been substantial since the Second World War—were used benefit .°f the Samoans. s.°f course, the Samoans are running the show themselves tv,? B n 4ro e -S an A make r, a success of which J r 5 dm « Corporation— wm°h has had an up and down Tho £ f existence—it is Mr, Eden T? n rtP°« p ?. ratlon be B a n life as the Trade Scheme, after the Pacifip war, and, took the place of the bis commercial firms who had donl business in the Solomons before thl Wa T r L bUt o decide ?. not to go back The Corporation runs retail fn° r f£’ 18 re . s P°nsible for lighterage S the P°££ °t Honiara and has other assorted functions Mr. Eden is not new to the Solomons. He actually began hit tropical career there in 1923 when he was with Burns Philp in’ Faisi He left in 1928. •