No Dust In This Filing System

One of the pioneers in the use of the Compactus filing systems in Fiji is the Native Land Trust Board. which has four units in its head quarters in Suva.

The board teas established in 1940 to administer all lands belonging to the Fijian people.

In its ex pertly-designed four-storey office block on Suva’s Victoria Parade. facing the harbour. the board administers 27.000 land leases.

For each lease there is a file and a stupendous number of historical records and accounts.

To make the most effective use of its floor space the board called in Parker McLeod Ltd of Sydney , as consultants and advisers.

The outcome of their survey was the introduction of the Brownhuilt Compactus Mobile Storage System.

And the result—says Mr Savenaca Bailoa. the board’s public rela tions officer —has been an enormous saving of space and vastly greater efficiency.

The archives alone, where documents used to be stacked on open shelves among which staff had scarcely enough room to move. are today accessibly compressed into less than half their former area.

Staff are comfortably accommodated at well-spaced desks. And the lease-drafting section. which used to occupy a separate building, has moved in with them because the Compactus has left so much room to spare.

Before the coming of the Compactus the old shelves and files used to collect dust. The dust harboured germs. Minor illnesses, and absences from work because of them, were numerous.

Today , the dust is gone. The staff are healthier. The files are more secure.

The Compactus in the combined archives and drafting room is the biggest used by the NLTB. But the other three. more than adequate for present needs, can be extended whenever necessary.

The system is manufactured by Lysaght Brownbuilt Industries (Fiji) Limited. Suva.