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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 December 1939Vol. X, No. 5

Fiji Controls Imports

p. 40 · Read in the full issue

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Suva, Nov. 10.

NEW regulations, framed for the con trol of imports, are set out in the Fiji Gazette of November 3.

Persons desiring to import goods from the United States, Canada, Newfound land, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Ar gentine, Hong Kong, Java, Japan and the Sudan are required to apply for a license: and if the application is granted, the importer must then arrange for the foreign exchange required.

Mrs. Alice Brierly, wife of Mr. W. C.

Brierly, died at Ryde, Sydney, on Novem ber 17. Mr. Brierly Was for 23 years in the service of the C.S.R. Company in Fiji, at Labasa, Nausori and Nadi. They had two daughters—Mrs. H. W. Watt, of Miles, Queensland, and Mrs. F. M.

Crawford, of Miri, Sarawak, Borneo.

Dr. D. W. Hoodless, principal of the Central Medical School, Suva, arrived at Auckland, New Zealand, by the “Tas man” in November on his way back to Fiji after spending furlough in Australia and the East.