The Fiji Times — extracts from
September 1
If a start is not made now on building the second phase of the new Suva Civic Centre - the Town Hall, it will never be built. The warning was given by the Suva Mayor, Cr C.A.Stinson on Tuesday night's meeting of the council.
September 2
The taking of the census – the first for 10 years – began yesterday. Census enumerators started the task of calling on every house within their areas. They ask 12 questions about every person who lives in the house.
September 3
The Controller of Prison Mr W.H.Morgan, in his report on the Prison Service for 1965, says that the daily average number of prisoners in custody last year was 473 – more than twice the number in 1955. Prison accommodation had not increased in keeping with the increase in the daily average prison population.
September 5
Saturday was a proud day for the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion of the Fiji Infantry Regiment. In more than an hour of fullscale military pomp, nearly 300 of the battalion's men took part in the trooping of the colour ceremony and then heard the Mayor of Suva, Cr C.A.Stinson confer on them the freedom of the city of Suva.
September 6
New Zealand has been very concerned with the standards of Fiji bananas over the years which have been "standards of progressive deterioration", the managing director of Fruits Distributors Ltd, Mr Ross Walker said at Nadi Airport yesterday. Mr Walker's company handles all imports of bananas into NZ.
September 7
A memorandum titled "Muslims Appeal for Separate Political Rights in Fiji" has been submitted to the Secretary of State for the Colonies,
Fred Lee, said the secretary of the Fiji Muslim Political Organisation, Abdul Razaak. The Organisation has declared its firm opposition to a common electoral roll.
September 9
Three residents in the Bay of Islands area objected at a meeting of the Central Division Liquor Tribunal in Suva yesterday to the granting of a conditional licence for the Bay of Islands Hotel planned for erection on the Queen's Road.
September 12
Ratu K.K.T.Mara, president of the Alliance is confident that his party will have the support of most of the people of Fiji in the general elections. The Alliance had offered "a programme of government for all races in Fiji".
September 13
The "slightly above average" total of influenza cases reported in Fiji for the week ended August 27 should not be taken as meaning that an epidemic of the true disease has struck Fiji", states the Medical Department's weekly health bulletin issued yesterday.
September 15
The practice among Fijians and Indians of looking for a witch doctor when someone falls ill was a challenge to all the Christians in the Pacific Islands, said a young Anglican minister.
September 18
Suva's farewell thanks to a departing Royal NZ Air Force for sterling service to the city and Fiji for 26 years was presented at Laucala Bay yesterday.
September 20
Ratu Leone Vuki of Labasa on Sunday became the 1st Fijian to be ordained a deacon of the Anglican Church. The ordination service was conducted by the Bishop of Polynesia at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Suva.
September 22
After having assaulted a constable and es