In To Sydney

Fiji Man Settles

By a Staff Writer

Fiji’s first Government representa e in Australia, Colonel Basil 'gers, halfway through August had nost completed his initial task of ting up what will probably become own as the Fiji Office in Sydney. addition he had also to find accommodation for himself and ; wife, accommodation which may entually become the permanent jidence of the Fiji representative in istralia.

Colonel Rogers sought something itable for later expansion at a asonable rental.

He thinks he has achieved this

with offices in the MLC Building, Martin Place, Sydney. He has secured the entire seventh floor of the building, which is in the commercial heart of Sydney.

The Fiji office will not have a telephone listing until the publication of the next Sydney directory, probably in May, 1965. In the meantime Hewlett, Keeling and Associates, which have a listing under the heading, “Fiji Visitors Bureau”, will re-direct appropriate calls to the Fiji office. On tourist matters Mr.

Bob Howett and Colonel Rogers will work closely together.

Colonel Rogers has several tentative ideas for Fiji trade with Aus-

tralia and in the next few weeks will set about putting them into action. He regards the tourist trade as important, and plans to place Fiji as a place for a holiday before the Australian public as often as possible, A quietly spoken individual with a bright sense of humour, Colonel Rogers should have little difficulty in proving a worthy first “ambassador” from Fiji, which has strong trading ties, always with an adverse balance, with Australia.

Colonel and Mrs. Rogers have taken a short lease of a flat at Darling Point, a fashionable inner Sydney suburb, on the shores of the harbour.