October 30, 1973

that tourists threatened their culture or their interests were secondary to those of the tourists, a professor of economics, George Doxey said in Suva. Prof Doxey, from Toronto in Canada, was speaking to Pacific Area Travel Association seminar delegates about tourism developing countries.

October 23

FIJI families were getting smaller, social scientis, Dr John Harre told a conference of social welfare workers at the University of the South Pacific. Dr Harre said the basic domestic unit in Fiji was changing from an extended family to a married couple and their children.

October 24

A LEADING Fiji trade unionist told more than 700 workers that the whole concept of the Government’s “patchwork” prices and incomes policy was wrong. The Secretary of the Fiji Trades Union Congress, James Raman, was speaking at a mass meeting the congress called to oppose the prices and incomes policy.

October 25

NEARLY 300 Fiji tenant farmers in doubt about their future because the agricultural tribunal at Lautoka has a backlog of applications. But the Government has made no move to appoint a tribunal to replace Michael Saunders, who resigned and left Fiji 15 months ago.

October 26

AN American-owned building company, Giuli-Fouche (Fiji) Ltd had dismissed its local employees. It has stopped work at the $5 million Fiji Regent Hotel site at Denarau Island, Nadi and at the $1m Stinson office building site in Suva.

October 27

DOUBTS over the future of Giuli-Fouche (Fiji) Ltd are affecting three building projects worth about $7m. The biggest is the $5m Fiji Regent Hotel site at Denarau Island, Nadi where 90 workers receive their wages plus nine week’s pay in lieu of notice.

October 29

MAJOR Fiji employers want the Government to extend phase two of its anti-inflation policy. They say the phase which is due at the end of the year, should continue for at least six more months. Phase two includes a limit of eight per cent of wage rises.

October 30

SIX teachers at Lomolomo Public School, 10 miles from Lautoka, boycotted their classes yesterday following an assault on their headmaster. A spokesman said police were investigating the incident and expected to charge a man soon.

TWO letters, a Lautoka resident posted from California in the United States reached a Lautoka address three and a half months later. The letters were postmarked properly in California, so presumably they were airmailed to Fiji. But whether the American postal service or the Fiji one is to blame for the delay will remain a mystery.