The Fiji Times — extracts from
July 1
FIVE youths who had caught 11 fish in a net of a size prohibited in a restricted area appeared before the Acting Magistrate, T.L.von Pokorny at the Suva Court. They were fined sums ranging from 12 pounds to eight pounds and fove pounds.
July 2
THE commercial timber in Fiji’s existing forests will be exhausted by 1995, states the new Development Plan. It urges strongly that precautions should be taken now to prevent the disappearance of Fiji’s natural forests in their natural form.
July 4
THE need for an efficient inter-island shipping service is stressed in Fiji’s new development plan which says: “It is clear that in an island group such as Fiji, an adequate shipping service is essential in order that the region can work as an economic unit.”
July 5
A PLEA for the Indian members of the Alliances to settle their differences was made by the president, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara at the annual meeting. Ratu
Mara said: “Will you please try to settle your own differences and work as one body within our Alliance?”
July 7
THE Fiji Marine Board found yesterday that it was necessary to hold a formal inquiry into the stranding of the cutter Adi Lau off Naroi Village, Moala, on the morning of May 13.
July 8
HUNDREDS of Fijian people were at the chiefly village of Viseisei, Vuda, on Wednesday for the vakataraisulu ceremony, when the women of the chiefly family of Vuda lifted the mourning for the late Tui Vuda, Adi Mere Tavaiqia.
July 9
AN ex-RNZAF launch with eight persons on board may have been lost between Beqa and Suva. The Suva police told The Fiji Times yesterday afternoon that they had received reports that the launch had left Naceva Village, Beqa, for Suva about three weeks ago but had not yet reached Suva.
July 11
MRS K.R.Bain has announced that she is offering herself as a Legislative Council candidate for the Suva City General constituency. She becomes the first woman candidate for the Legislative Council elections.
July 12
KELEVI Waqanivalu who claimed to be dentist and made false teeth for four people, was fined 12 pounds and each of two counts and gaoled for two months on a third by the Senior Magistrate Mr Moti Tikaram at the Suva Court.
July 13
A MAN who was in a bedroom in the house of a prominent Suva Chinese businessman on Monday night is recovering at the CWM Hospital from recent internal injuries suffered when he jumped from the windows of the room which is on the first floor of the house.
July 14
BEER produced in Fiji had no greater alcoholic strength than imported Australian beer, and no more than most beer from any other part of the world, said the chairman of directors of Carlton Brewery Fiji
Limited, Mr W.G. Johnson yesterday.
July 16
THE Customs Department has lost the confidence of the people, the Legislative Council was told yesterday. Mr C.D.Aidney was speaking in the resumed debate on the Custom’s Bill, which, since being published , has raised fierce controversy.
July 18
MRS U. Stevenson who was Nursing Superintendent in the Medical Department has returned from pre-retirement leave and agreed to undertake the duties of Matron of the Colonial War Memorial Hospital.
July 20
FIJI’S only representative at the Eighth British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Ana Ramacake, will leave the Colony tomorrow on her way to join the representatives of most of the countries and territories of the Commonwealth at Kingston, Jamaica.
July 21
A MAN who played a valuable part in the war against the Japanese in the Marshall Islands told a Fiji Times reporter in Suva yesterday how he did it. He