Thursday, November, 1981
Party chief hits back at the PM
AN attack the Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, made on a coalition of opposition political parties has been described as “contradictory,” by the Western United Front party (WUF). Speaking as party president at the Alliance national convention at Lami at the weekend, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara said such a “coalition would simply be “an unholy political association” that could never give Fiji’s people what they wanted. The National Federation Party depended on one community for support while other political groups were “wholly racial in outlook and of limited appeal, both geographically and in terms of their politics” he said. WUF president Ratu Osea Gavidi said the Prime Minister was obviously contradicting himself and his own party’s policies. “We often hear of the three legged stool of the Alliance, with three racial groupings coming together to form the party,” he said.
“If he suggests that a coalition between the predominantly western Fijian WUF, and the predominantly Indian NFP, and the predominantly eastern Fijian Nationalist Party would be an unholy alliance, then obviously an unholy alliance has been ruling the country for the last 10 years.
Friday, November 19, 1976
FSC will pay out record dividend
A RECORD profit resulting in a record dividend to shareholders for 1975 was announced by the Fiji Sugar Corporation Ltd yesterday. But the highest prices received for sugar were not likely to be reached again in the foreseeable future, the chairman, Arthur Leys, said at the corporation’s annual meeting in Suva. In his address to the shareholders, Mr Leys said there was an imperative need in years of high profit to plough funds back into the corporation to maintain efficiency, employment and a consistent return to shareholder.
Land plea
THE Leader of the Oposition, Siddiq Koya, last night called on the Government to launch huge land reclamation projects to solve land tenancy needs. He said once reclaimed, the land should be leased to agricultural tenants in perpetuity by the Crown. “Sooner or later the Fijian community is bound to say we want our land back (leased land). Why should we fight them? The Native Land Trust Board could be asked to release reserved land for leasing or release new land,” he said.
Tuesday, November 19, 1963
Fijian soldiers are Britons by adoption
SEVEN Fijian soldiers from the Royal Ulster Rifles — the regiment which was air-lifted from Britain to an exercise in Australia two weeks ago — have arrived home in Fiji for three weeks holiday. The Fijians, considered by high ranking officers to be among the best men in the British Army, had joined the army when a recruiting team came to Fiji in 1961. They are on six and nine-year engagements.
Tuesday, November 19, 1918
A LEVUKA correspondent writes: – Great news! The war ended, thank God. What about keeping Germans out of Fiji? Do not let them in here again. Keep them out by all means. Now is the time. By and by they will be coming like flies.
Fountain Faucet
AT THE meeting of the Municipal Council yesterday it was decided to obtain a new model drinking fountain of a sanitary character, and erect it at the Ivi Tree. It was estimated the cost would be about 10 pounds. In this fountain the lips of the drinker do not touch the metal faucet.
