Town Board Nominated
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For Suva
THE Suva Municipal Council, which was elective, went out of existence on December 31, and was replaced by a Town Board which, in accordance with the policy adopted in 1935, was nominated by the Governor. The new Board com prises:— Official Members: J. J. Judd (Chairman), P. F.
Boyd (Deputy Chairman), D. R. McDonald, H.
Sabben, A. W. L. Savage, H. E. Smythe, and Dr.
C. H. B. Thompson.
European Unofficial Members: T. W. A. Barker, B. H. Marks.
Fijian Unofficial Members: Inoke Cakautini and Simioni Tamani.
Indian Unofficial Members: S. Hasan and K. L.
Tillak.
Mr. J. N. Montgomery, leader of Oil Search Co.’s survey party in New Guinea, left Sydney to continue his operations in the Aitape district by the, January Montoro.
Dr. Edgar Aubert de la Rue, 1.G.N., of the Paris University, who led a scientific expedition to study geology in the Wes tern Pacific in 1934, was recently sent by the Natural History Museum of Paris to carry out ethnological, geological, and zoological investigations in the New Heb rides. He is now engaged in field work there, with his wife. Some results of Dr. de la Rue’s first expedition have been collated and published in French in an interesting and well-illustrated pamphlet entitled “The Wallis and Futuna Islands and Their Inhabitants.”