Readers And Advertisers: Please Note

The following appeared in "New Zealand Mercantile Gazette" of August 23, 1967, among "Company Registration?": "Pacific Publications (NZ) Ltd.—Private co. July 26, c/o P. W. Saunders, West Block, Mayfair Chambers, The Terrace, W'n. Capital: $4,000.

Subscribers and directors: Auckland, J. O. Saunders, 3,900. Wellington: P. W. Saunders, 100. Objects: Proprietors and publishers of journals and other literary works and incid."

Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., the publishers of "Pacific Islands Monthly", was registered in Sydney on May 14, 1931. Since then (36 years) Pacific Publications Pty Ltd. has traded extensively in Australia and the Pacific Islands, and many other countries. The periodicals and books published by us, and by this company's two wholly-owned subsidiaries (Sydney & Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., and Fiji Times & Herald Ltd.) have been sold regularly over many years, and in large numbers, in New Zealand. Many NZ people are subscribers to our journals, and many NZ business firms and corporations advertise in our publications.

We therefore desire it to be known that the persons named in the above registration are completely unknown to us, and we did not authorise the use of our name in this way.

We ask our NZ readers and advertisers to note that "Pacific Publications (NZ) Ltd." does not represent us in any way and that any payments made on our account to that concern or on account of Fiji Times & Herald Ltd. or Sydney & Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., cannot be acknowledged.