Import Control Relaxed

In Fiji

THE import contrdl restrictions in Fiji have been relaxed in the case of 30 classes of goods which were enumer ated in a Royal Gazette published in early August. No import licences will be required from now on for goods in these classes, which include printed books and periodicals, articles of purely educational value, seeds, postage stamps, sports and other trophies, articles for use by the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides’ Associa tions and the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade, and material needed to main tain wireless or cable communications.

Residents of the Colony are advised that although they do not now need a Fiji import licence for goods for their personal use up to the value of £5, this does not necessarily mean that orders for such things as footwear and drapery can be sent to New Zealand or Australia with any certainty that the orders will be filled. The rationing restrictions in those two countries have to be taken into account. The Controller of Imports in Suva is able to give intending buyers information about these restrictions.

Mrs. Percy Goode, widow of Mr. Percy Goode, of Kessa Plantation, Buka (who was killed by the Japs when they visited there early in 1942), has returned to her profession, nursing, and is on the staff of the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney.

Mrs. Goode escaped from New Guinea just before the invasion.