To Inquire

Into

Fiji Taxation

Committee Set Up

Suva, Jan. 23.

FOLLOWING an undertaking made by the Governor at the December meet ing of the Legislative Council, a Committee has been set up to investigate Fiji taxation generally. The members of the Committee (under the chairmanship of Mr. P. H. Nightingale, acting financial secretary) have just been announced.

They are:— Messrs. K. B. Singh, W. R. Main, R. L.

Munro, J. Trotter and W. F. Watson.

The first three committeemen are mem bers of the Legislative Council.

The efforts of the unofficial members of the Legislative Council, who were somewhat sceptical that the increased taxation proposed in this year’s Budget would not be used to pay increased ad ministrative costs, led to the formation of the Committee. The Committee’s terms of reference are;— To examine the existing methods of taxation in the Colony, with particular reference to the fairness of their inci dence on individuals and their effect on industries, and to make recom mendations as to whether the existing methods should be altered, and, if so, in what respects on the basis that the total amount of revenue should not be less than is produced by the present methods.

J. A. D. Gibson & Co.. Ltd., of 364 Kent Street, Sydney, whose advertise ment appears on page 39, this issue, have now registered as a proprietary companv, and in future will be known as J. A. D.

Gibson & Co. Ptv., Ltd.

Mrs. L. H. Brodie and family, now of Potts Point, Sydney, extend their deepest sympathy to all friends who lost their loved ones in the Rabaul disaster.***