January 15 events
Sir,
I am a relative of a junior police officer who was recently charged by a police court for unlawfully using a police vehicle. This action was taken, as there are a very limited number of motor vehicles in the Police Force. However, only last week during the busy period before Christmas, a senior police officer from Suva brought by the ferry Ashika a police Land-rover and a police corporal to drive him around. Under the pretence of carrying out inspection, they rushed through Wainikoro, Labasa, Dreketi and Nabouwalu on Monday December 16. On Tuesday, they drove through from Nabouwalu to Savusavu and then to a private estate at Nalovo in Nakoto where he has
personal interest.
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January 15, 1970 Labasa to hold council election Labasa Town Council is due to hold its mayoral election tomorrow and Cr Morgan Simmons is tipped to be the new mayor. The Fiji Times Northern Division correspondent reported that the present mayor, Cr Satyawan Jaduram, had told the council he would not be seeking re-election for another term. Cr Simmons, who is the national president of the Fiji Sugar Tradesmen’s Union, is expected to be the Alliance mayoral nominee.
January 15, 1988 Yaqona imports from Tonga increase
Yaqona imports from Tonga over the past four years have been valued at more than $450,000. A spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said Fiji began the imports on a large scale in 1974, and the value had increased steadily over the years. He said the imports had been made under a privately established system of trade.
January 15, 1976 Boat reported missing
Four young men in a boat driven by a sail made from leaves were reported missing yesterday in stormy northern Lau seas. They are reported to have left Kaibu Island on Monday morning for Taveuni, 32 miles away. The shipping manager of Williams Shipping, Captain Frank Mitchell yesterday spoke by radio to the Kaibu Island manager.
January 15, 1977 Poor lunches reported at boarding school Children attending a boarding school on Taveuni were lunching on plain boiled rice and milk-less cocoa and sharing 10 cans of fish between 180 for dinner, Taveuni resident claims. The school, Niusawa Methodist High School, had between 180 and 190 boarders and about the same number of day pupils, the resident said.
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