Heavy Fines For Fiji
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Publicans.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Suva, Mar. 3.
UNDER the Fiji Liquor Ordinance, natives and Indians cannot obtain liquor unless they are in possession of a permit. A heavy penalty is provided for publicans or anyone else supplying prohibited persons.
For some years past the fines in flicted by the bench have not been any where near the maximum of £5O, but during the last few weeks it seems that a determined effort is being made to stamp out the practice.
The first shock came when the lisensee of the Navua Hotel was fined £2O. A week later a barman employed in the Club Hotel, Suva, was convicted on a similar charge, and fined £3O, though it was his first offence. The same penalty was inflicted on the licensee of the Rewa Hotel, also a first offender, a few days later.
Miss Clarice Hayton, who for the last three years has had charge of a school on Moa Island, Torres Strait, sailed from Sydney for Fiji by the “Aorangi” on March 17. She has accepted a position with the Anglican Mission, and will have charge of the boys’ school at Wailevu.
Mr. A. W. Seymour, C.M.G., ,who was Colonial Secretary of Fiji from 1926 to 1935, has resigned the post of Colonial Secretary of Trinidad, British West Indies.
Meli Marawa, a retired senior warder in the Fiji Prisons Department, has been awarded the Imperial Service Medal by His Majesty King George VI.