New Canneries

To Operate

In Fiji Soon

By a Staff Writer

iji will soon become the third tory in the South Pacific to

; a canning industry when

canneries are opened in the >ny, based on produce from

rich Sigatoka Valley.

E canneries are to be established by South Pacific Foods Pty. Ltd.

Cottee’s (Fiji) Ltd., a subsidiary le well-known Cottee group of Janies in Australia, rritories in which canneries are dy established are American ja and the Cook Islands, where and fruits respectively have canned for some time, ic establishment of the new prises suggests that the growing 1 population with its ever \ living standards offer adequate ;ets for all South Seas canned nets. uth Pacific Foods already has abled plant (some of it is iment put out of operation when rSR Co. discontinued pineapple ing near Lautoka) and has been imenting successfully in a small ry in Sigatoka with passion papaws, tomatoes, mangoes, pples, guavas and whitebait the Sigatoka River, e managing director is Mr. 1. Harrison, who is associated Mangrove Mountain Fruit s Pty. Ltd., of New South Wales. ’ of Fiji’s leading tourist hotels been making these products ible to travellers, and report a irable reaction.

£lOO,OOO Capital

ttees (Fiji) Ltd., was registered iva early in November with a nal capital of £lOO,OOO. e directors are Mr. H. W. e, managing director of Cottees ed; Mr. E. T. Righter, general ger; Dr. C. M. Martin, chief ist; and Mr. D. M. N. Mc ne, a well-known Fiji lawyer, ttees already are known to lers as the corporation which ered passionfruit growing and ng in Goroka, in the New sa Highlands. It has factories 1 the Australian State capitals. shareholders’ funds total 100,000, and it produces all of fruit juices, cordials, jams, drinks and other foodstuffs.