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Opposed To Nominee
Three Elected Members Would Test Public Feeling in Fiji
From Our Own Correspondent.
SUVA, Sept. 3.
THE question of a change in the political constitution of Fiji continues to oc cupy public attention. The Honourables J. P. Bayly, Alport Barker, and Major W.
E. Tottenham have publicly stated that they are prepared to accept the challenge thrown out by a correspondent in the local newspaper to resign their seats in order to test public feeling. The other three European elected members have not however, followed suit.
The Indian Association of Fiji has en tered the lists and has published reports of meetings of protest against the pro posals to revert to a nominee system. Ap parently they have also communicated with India, and these communications may have a possible repercussion upon the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
No doubt the question will be fully dealt with by Sir Murchison Fletcher at the next meeting of the Legislative Coun cil. In the meantime, a local resident has pointed out that in the Colony’s Esti mates for 1935, £2OO had been allocated for a general election in Fiji this year.
He suggests that this money might be utilised to hold a referendum of the colonists.