Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 25 August 1937Vol. VIII, No. 1

Polling Completed

p. 66 · Read in the full issue

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Fiji Legislative Council Elections

From Our Own Correspondent

Suva, Aug. 3.

A LTHOUGH polling has been com pleted, the results of the Fiji Legis lative Council elections will not be known for some time. There is a ballot box to come from the dependency of Rotuma, and until that is received all the results will not be available.

Nominations closed some time ago, and two members were returned unop posed—Mr. Alport Barker (European Southern Division) and Mr. Vishnu Deo (Indian Southern Division).

Nominations for the other divisions were as follows: Europeans.— North-Western Division; Messrs. J. P. Bayly and H. H. Ragg; Eastern Division: Major W. E. Wil loughby Tottenham and Mr. H. B. Gib son.

Indians. North - Western Division: Messrs. A. D. Patel and C. Chattur Singh; Eastern Division; Messrs. C. Z. Patel, Tularam, and Ram Kuar Singh.

Mr. Ram Kuar Singh withdrew his nomination before polling commenced.

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