Fiji’S New Scenic Road
pp. 23-24 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Sept. 29.
EXCELLENT progress is being made with the new road through to Navua and Sigatoka, and, at present, cars can travel along the road for about 17 miles from Suva. In fact, one car, that of a road engineer, Mr. Rix-Trott, has already been through to Navua —the first to make the journey.
The road gives promise of being a fine scenic attraction when it is completed, and even as far as it has gone, it is ex tremely pretty in parts.
However, it is noticeable that timber cutters are already at work along the roadside, and it is to be hoped that the Government will take some action to stop their depredations.
Sub-Inspector P. M. Morris and Mrs.
Morris left Suva by the Aorangi on leave on September 24.
Mr. B. E. V. Parham, Fiji Government agricultural officer, and his family left Suva by the Aorangi on September 24 on leave.
Mr. R. A. Laws, of Messrs, Greenwood and Laws, merchants, of Rabaul and Wau, arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui on Sep tember 24. He has spent 11 years in busi ness in Papua and the Mandated Terri tory. Mr. Laws said that a new branch of the firm had recently been opened at Lae under the management of Mr. Bob Watson.
Mr. Thomas Mason, headmaster of the Namaka school, Nadi, Fiji, has been ap pointed assistant master at the Jeanes Training Centre, Nyasaland, British East Africa. He departed from Suva by the Niagara on September 18 for Canada, and planned to join the liner Queen Mary in New York for Great Britain. He will spend a short furlough in Scotland before pro ceeding to Nyasaland.