Image 1...Pacific Islands Monthly AUGUST, 1966 30 Aust. cents Three shillings 70 US cents 50 French Pac. frcs. The...
Image 2...Transmission by post as a newspaper. AUGUST, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY TAA "Bird of Paradiseâ Six days a...
Image 3...Friendly Way 1 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1966 TO OPERATE EFFICIENTLY YOUR EQUIPMENT NEEDS POWER Whatever your power...
Image 4...Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd., Goroka. 2 AUGUST, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY i * m m nice & w...
Image 5...new wheat. 3 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1966 mm Biscuits Arnottâs MILK ARROWROOT Biscuits All-day energy for children...
Image 6...all about it. She stopped off i Fiji between flights for the French Nation. Day celebrations. PACIFIC ISLANDS... ...Tel.; 63-7053. Fi|i: Pacific Publications (Fiji) Ltd., Fiji Times 8 i , . 1 .. d,n n 3'... ...Ltd. is the Australian agent for THE FIJI TIMES. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Australia: 30 cents Aust. or 3/- ($3.60... ...areas go by surface mail. 4 AUGUST, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY As the Lisbon Lemon said to the...
Image 7...This Issue Vol. 37. No. 8, AUGUST, 1966 GENERAL Church Preparations for Independence 30 BP's Joseph Mitchell Retires... ...27 Fewer Calls by "Moana Roa" 11l FIJI Legco Session 13 Labasa Hotel Extensions 15 Rabi Islander in... ...52, 53 Oldest Part-European 25 Legislative Council Elections 34 Mission on Higher Education 55 Tobacco Statistics 59 New...
Image 11...was having a lot to say about Fiji and Mr. Hay was interested in getting the background of... ...the Tonga Copra Board had chartered a Fiji Airways aircraft to survey the coconut industry from the air.... ...Gordon Thomas 9 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1966 niche in the continuing pageant of New Guinea affairs. He...
Image 13...services. The heaviest spending will be in 1966-67, for which the plan calls for £519,450. The biggest single... ...Rob Wright. 11 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1966 credit for agricultural purposes cai be obtained. The report says...
Image 14...tc load and unload Tongan cargo ir Fiji. Freight costs and handling charges will thus be reduced. The... ...from the Gilberts, and will look to Fiji or Samoa for an outlet for their only product âcopra.... ...a new national anthem? 12 AUGUST. 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FIJI CLEARS THE DECK FOR VITAL NEW ELECTIONS...
Image 15...Having opened with a sizzle of fireworks, Fijiâs Legislative Council ended its three years of fife at 3.30... ...the present council, which has now dissolved. Fiji will hold new elections in September under a brand new... ...majority of unofficial members. These will be Fijiâs first âhome rulersâ. The oratory in the closing 60 minutes... ...poured all over the dying council. The Fijian elected member for the northern constituency, Josua Rabukawaqa, praised the... ...rulers, Josua asked them to stay in Fiji. There, he hoped, they would be happy. The honourable European... ...sadnessâ, was lyrical about the probity of Fijiâs expatriate civil servants. Although Fiji, he said, got generous handouts... ...to the fact that the most important election in Fijiâs history is on the horizon and members were... ...busy electioneering. The short-lived sizzle at the beginning was brought about by the unprecedented step of unofficial members... ...would become if left until after the elections. The unofficial mutiny did not cause the dissension one would... ...in 1951. 13 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1966 14 AUGUST, 1 9 6 6 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MORRIS...
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Image 17...made to unravel the tangled skein of Fiji land laws. Land is a racial matter in this colony.... ...land, including the land belonging to the Fijian land-owning unit, which comprises more than 80 per cent, of... ...all Fiji land. Security For Tenants The bill is designed to give all tenants security of tenure for... ...Madhavan, had something critical to say about Fijian custom. Fijian Semesa Sikivou rose in his wrath at this... ...exercise in navigation, avoiding rocks strewn by Fijians, Indians, tenants and landlords. Altogether more than 20 bills were... ...than £11,000,000 and is expected to start Fiji on the road to prosperity. Everyone had something to say... ...that it wasnât claimed it would turn Fiji into a paradise, and that investigations into Fijiâs potential were... ...into the hardships of New And Old Fiji Councils Fijiâs Legislative Council, which was dissolved in July, comprised... ...of six Europeans, six Indians and six Fijians. After the elections to be held between September 26 and... ...but nine of the unofficials will be elected from Fijian, Indian and European rolls and by the Council... ...of Chiefs. The remaining nine will be elected by cross-voting in three constituencies. Fijiâs new constitution has not... ...the Grand Eastern Hotel at Labasa, on Fiji's second largest island, Vanua Levu, provides first class accommodation for...
Image 18...in the land registration laws to allow Fijian land-owning units to. become registered proprietors under the provisions of... ...he proposed could alter the position of Fijian land regulations, and even allow the land-owning -units to dispose... ...after Ratu Penaia Ga'rihau, the Secretary for Fijian and Local Government, had .given ah Assurance that a legal... ...expert coming To Fiji. s would look into the âsuitabilityâ of existing land ordinancesâ. The motion about the... ...an embarrassment to Mr. P. D. Macdonald, Fijiâs Colonial Secretary and former Acting Governor. Mr. Kearsley did not... ...resumed with a full attendance. 16 AUGUST, 1966 P AC I FI O I SLA NDS MONTHLY AMERICAN...
Image 19...Ten Usher, editor and publisher of The Fiji Times Suva* I would like to preface what I have... ...and shocking type. But our experience in Fiji, and the experience of the people in the Solomons and... ...official photo. 17 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1966 there has been full consultation before any constitutional changes have...
Image 20...on the island of Rab in the Fiji Group. RABI is owned and occupied b the Banabans, the... ...year when the Bana bans told the Fiji Government tha he must go. In Sydney, Tebuke an< Rabiâs... ...to run their own affairs but the Fiji Government wanted âto keep rulingâ. âBanabans want to retain their... ...18 AUGUST, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY identity as Banabans and that is why we decided a few months...
Image 21...ago not to register on the Fiji electoral roils for the new elections,â he said. âWe are in... ...the Fiji Colony now and we canât run away, but we hope we can run everything ourselves eventually.â... ...said neither the GEIC Government nor the Fiji Government had ever told the Banabans the facts they were... ...with the Banaban Adviser and with the Fiji Government. He gave in detail his story of the troubles... ...the event last September (p. 16) the Fiji Government put out a statement denying it. This time the... ...a week!â 'More Police Work' To Solve Fiji's Drink Problem More activity by the police, and adequate fines... ...Suva, the managing director of Northern Hotels, Fiji, Mr. David Ragg, said in July. MR. RAGG was commenting... ...correspondence on the problem published in The Fiji Times (and reported in this issue of PIM, p. 52).... ...Drunkenness is a controversial matter in Fiji at present. In a letter to PIM Mr. Ragg, whose company... ...operates a chain of Fiji hotels, said he couldnât see why licensees or barmen should be selected as... ...opinion, die out. âThe majority of the Fijian drinkers behave themselves and it is only a very small... ...in July. 19 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1966 THE AIR ACE COMES TO FANNING ISLAND Fanning Island, 1,150...
Image 25...MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 23 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1966 I Introducing a brand new version of economy The TOYOTA...
Image 27...legislation in 1965. He Remembered The Old Fiji WHEN Mr. John Francis Byrne died in Fiji in late... ...settled into the village. He married a Fijian woman from Namosi, and their son was named John Francis.... ...and always closely associated with the coastal Fijians. The son in 1902 married another part - European, Sophie... ...to him. In those early days, the Fijians in the mountains behind the coast were cannibals and raiders,... ...their house. 25 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1966 26 AUGUST, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY RED COCOA / COFFEE...
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Image 32...Archdiocese of Suva (formerly the Vicariate of Fiji); the Dioceses of Apia (formerly the Vicariate of Samoa and... ...from Rome. â Photo: Nitan. 30 AUGUST, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY (Advertisement) A smooth, elegant neck is soon...
Image 33...to less than 10 per cent, in Fiji. ⢠Film star Marlon Brando, with Tahitian friend Miss Terita... ...Islands stamp. A GEIC man living in Fiji says he is embarrassed because the stamp makes the islanders... ...overprinted 8c. 31 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1966 32 AUGUST, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY In the Service <...
Image 35..."New Issues". 33 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1966Fiji's Political Pot Is Now Simmering From a Suva Correspondent...
Image 36...With the general elections foi Fijiâs new Legislative Council only a couple of months away, the political pot... ...Partyâs diatribes against the Europeans and the Fijian chiefly system might have on their future position in the... ...the Indians have been say34 34 AUGUST, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY who lives in a round house at...
Image 37...should remember that independence will come to Fiji and it will come whether anyone wants it or not.... ...of invective against the Europeans and the Fijian chiefs. The articles have been signed with a Fijian nameâSaimone... ...School of Economics, and none of the Fijians in London has ever met him or heard of him.... ...close liaison between all the races in Fiji. Ratu Maraâs speech was an appeal to the Indian people,... ...work as one body within the alliance. Fijians "United" âWe Fijians are ready now,â he said. âWe are... ...our land as one, and now the Fijian Association has accepted the idea of full co-operation with the... ...that the loyalty of the people of Fiji to the Crown was unshakeable and that Fiji, under whatever... ...the most important was the belief that Fiji needed a land policy clearly stated and understood by all.... ...âWe recognise the paramount interests of the Fijian people as chief landowners and we shall foster the agricultural... ...services, could have come from any politicianâs election address anywhere. What the Alliance didnât stress was what it... ...the Federation. 35 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1966 Advertisement Beautify Your Hair Your hair will be alive with...
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