Solomons Magistrate Is
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Kept Very Busy
MR. RAGNAR HYNE, who was legal adviser and Chief Magistrate in the Solomon Islands until the Japanese invasion early this year, is now acting as Resident Magistrate in Suva, and prob ably he has been busier in recent months than ever before in his official life.
In Fiji, at present, a number of extra ordinary wartime laws are operating— especially one which places sharp restric tions upon the drinking of alcoholic liquor and the purchase of single bottles, and another which imposes a curfew, so that all persons—Europeans, Indians and Fijians—have to be home well before mid night. Both laws are being rigorously administered by the police, and the Magistrate is daily imposing fines for liquor offences and breaches of the curfew regulations.