Prominent Indians

In Fiji.

From a Special Correspondent.

Suva, Feb. 4.

THREE, brothers well-known through out Fiji are shown in the photograph below: th,ey are (from left to right) Messrs. Farm Anand Singh, C. Chattur Singh, M.L.C., and Gajadhar Singh.

Acknowledged to be the most promin ent Fiji-bom Indian leader in the Colony, Mr. C. Chattur Singh is Indian elected member for the North-Western Division in the Legislative Council. Taking a keen interest in the welfare of the In dian community, he has been connected with most of social and political organ isations in Fiji since 1916.

The first Fiji-born Indian to join the N.Z. Expeditionary Forces for active service overseas, Mr. Gajadhar Singh is the second eldest of the Singh family.

Entering the Fiji Civil Service in 1919, he was for some years a clerk attached to the District Commissioner’s office in various parts of the Colony. ,He was transferred to Suva in 1932 as clerk of the Magistrate’s Court, and more recent ly was promoted to the Registrar-Gen eral’s Department.

Educated in Fiji and New Zealand, Mr. Farm Singh followed in his eldest brother’s footsteps in politics and other matters connected with the advance ment of the Indian community. When the political franchise was first extended to Indians in 1929, he contested and won a seat in the Legislative Council, at the ’age of 26. However, he later resigned with the two other Indian members as a protest against the Council’s rejection of the Indians’ demand for a “common roll”. Although pressed on several occa sions, he has since declined to stand again for election to the Council, and his brother, Mr. C. Chattur Singh, now rep resents the Division*