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Pacific Islands Monthly, 25 August 1937Vol. VIII, No. 1

New Government Buildings

p. 66 · Read in the full issue

in Suva

From Our Own Correspondent

Suva, Aug. 6.

VISIBLE progress is now being made with Fiji’s new Government buildings, which are being erected in Suva.

Formerly much of the work was underground, and not much was to be seen for the months ot work put in. Now the buildings themselves are beginning to take shape. The walls are going up, and it is possible to get a good idea of what the finished structure will be like, so far as lay out is concerned.

The architect-in-charge, Mr. W. F. Hedges, said that the work will now go ahead a great deal faster, as, by the last direct steamer from London, the final shipment of machinery for the job arrived, as well as large quantities of scfiP folding and iron work,