COAL DEPOSITS AT FIJI.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3320, 25 October 1919, Page 3

COAL DEPOSITS AT FIJI.

NATIVE LEGEND OF EXISTENCE. The possibility of there being con-.-ziderablc ccnl clcposits in Fiji was moll’rioned yesterday by Major W. A. Chapplo, who has just returned from a trip to the Isl:uld.<_ He mentioned that the natives llud u. legcnt that good quality 00:11 existed in the mountains of Viti Lovu, thv island on \\'hi<:h Suva i.- sifuatofl. buf if they know ally’.hillg thc'_V' wm'e‘3vel‘y I'('}ti(‘(‘llt as fo Hl9 \\.']lm'o:lhol‘.l’_< Of’ the deposit. .\1t"l1<:11}_{1> lignite had eb<'ell «liscov(el'ed 011 the island, search for ‘rho bo’rterclass (30:11 had so far failed. Rt-ferl-ingfo Lord Jelll'coe,’s stater=v‘nt' that Suva was in €V(‘.]'_V way suited for :1 PacilieLll:l\‘7zl'l bH.‘}(‘. N{Eljm' (‘happlu said I‘h:~_l< 1-esich-111$ in that tmvn had 1'a1«;on -.1 relwxvod info}-est in hv 1'<*p()I'f0:". I>l'(‘S'_‘D.Ct" of good 0021] on 13719, islam. as it“ was I‘ozlliscd thaf good steam coal would prove a valuable asset.