Controls Remain On In
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Fiji
SUVA, Sept. 16. rE Supply and Production Board is at present considering whether the cessation of hostilities with Japan will make possible the relaxation of any of the wartime controls which have been imposed in Fiji. The Board’s decisions will be made known shortly.
In the meantime, it is officially stated that the end of the war with Japan has made little difference to the general economic situation within the Empire. No rapid easing of restrictions on supplies from overseas can be expected.
The need for repatriating large num bers of troops and displaced persons and for extending large-scale relief to liberated territories, will mean that the shortage of shipping will be as acute as ever The public must, therefore, be pre pared to endure, at any rate for the time being, a further period of stringency.
The recent news from the United King dom. which paints a grim picture of the conditions likely to prevail there this winter (when the people will be less warm, and will have less food and cloth ing than at any time during the war), indicates how far we still are from any return to normal conditions.