Fiji’s “come-on”
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Mapping the face
of Fiji’s farmlands
By the end of 1978 the Fiji Minis try of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food should have a collection of photographic maps showing hills, river valleys and all other physical features of 70 000 acres of some of the richest agricultural land in the country. The maps are being pre pared for the ministry’s drainage and irrigation division and will be used in a proposed submission to the International Bank for Reconstruc tion and Development for loans for drainage channels and seawalls.
The aerial mapping programme is a joint Fiji-Australia project and will produce the most detailed maps yet made of Fiji. The programme covers sugar and rice lands in Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. An Australian firm, Control Surveys (Aust.) Pty Ltd, is taking the photo graphs from a Cessna 402 aircraft.
Fiji is providing the survey teams to work on the ground control part of the project. The programme is being carried out under the Australian South Pacific Aid Programme.
Mew hunting rules
lor PNG visitors
There are new hunting rules iffecting visitors to Tonda Wildlife Reserve. Bensbach, Western Prov nce. These include; a game limit of r ive deer and five ducks for each lunter, with all hunting prohibited n the area between the Bensbach ind Morehead rivers, payment of royalties of K 2 for each duck, 30
toea per kilo of fish and a sliding scale for deer from Kl 5 for the first to K6O for the fifth.
Further details may be obtained from Mr J Lever. Wildlife Management. Department of Agriculture. PO Box 2417.
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Fiji’s “come-on”
for new industries
Fiji is throwing out a bait to new industry through duty-free entry of materials and income tax holidays.
Two lists have been drawn up one known as priority industries and the other as selected industries.
Priority industries, subject to stipulated conditions, are granted
duty-free entry of plant and machin ery, duty-free entry of raw materials and components not available in Fiji, income tax concessions for three years (this will be subject to review at the end of three years), ac celerated depreciation allowance on plant, machinery and building, and export incentives, subject to the In come Tax Act of 1974.
Selected industries will receive additional concessions, apart from those granted to priority industries.
These are income tax concessions for five years, protection through in creased tariff or licensing, and liberal work permits for technical and managerial staff in line with approved guidelines.
• A concrete industry may be set up near Vavau airport in Tonga, op erated in partnership by Mr Van As sema, of New Zealand, and Mr Siope Takau, of Vavau. Their en terprise is Dolphin Tanks, Tonga, Ltd. The intention is to build con crete septic tanks, killing sheds and houses. The partners plan to seek financial assistance from the NZ Pacific Islands Industrial Develop ment Scheme (PUDS). Mr S.
Raghavan, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour, Commerce and Industries, has tentatively re commended that the project be welcomed to Tonga as a pilot programme. The ministry is review ing the plan.
Built in Hamburg, she once plied the oceans of the world as the Wellington Trader. But a few years back she threw off the shackles of the world of commerce and "went to university". Now, under her new name of Tangaroa, she leads an active life as the chief survey vessel of New Zealand's Oceanographic Institute.