Suva Town Board Must Vote
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As It's Told
From Our Own Correspondent.
Suva, Feb. 23.
THE position of official members of the Suva Town Board was made c’ear by the chairman (Dr. V. W. T. McGusty) at the last meeting. It is virtually that official members must vote as they are instructed, in the same manner as offi cial members of the Legislative Council do.
The question arose when the chairman stated that the official side would be un able to accept a certain motion.
Mr. Alport Barker then asked if he were to understand from the chairman’s remarks that official members were to vote as they were told. He had under stood from the former Governor. Sir Murchison Fletcher, when the Board was formed that official members were to have a free voice.
Dr. McGusty replied that the position now was that official members had to vote as they were ordered unless a ques tion was put to the open vote of the Board.
Peni V. B. Tuidraki, Native Medical Practitioner, who received his medical training at the Central Medical School, Fiji, sailed from Sydney for the New Hebrides by the Morinda in February.