PROSPEROUS SUVA

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 433, 18 January 1933, Page 4

PROSPEROUS SUVA

VISITOR TO ROTORUA SJ TRADE PROSPECTS BRIGHT NEW MARKETS OPENEi Interesting comment on the ditions pertaining in Suva were to a "Post" representative yest by Mrs. W. A. Speers, who is i ing her native country after a sence of three' years. While in rua sh'e is staying at Brents gate House. Mrs. Speers is the wife of 1 A. Speers, departmental mana Burns, Philp and Company, h Suva, where she has resided f°r ly eight years. Unlike most o'ther paris world, it is only during thq P months that Suva has experienc depression to any great extent Mrs. Speers, and it certainly 1 heen as noticeable as in New Ze Business generally has been the chief exports being pice and bananas. In the latter eai volume of exports has been « increasing and although N ew« has provided a regular man1 this product the Australian t had not previously heen exp'01 the extent desirable. Howeye' before Mrs. Speers left the is her present trip the lai'gest s ] of bananas sent to ^Austo Suva, and the possibilities 1 trade, appear bright. j Tourist traffic to the isla™ , increasing, this feature being cularly noticeable since the ina; tion of the new Matson semc® touches the island, bringmg a steady stream of visitors , America, Australia and New' ,