Second World War

Memorial For Fiji

SUVA, March 1. has been appointed in Fiji to consider what form the Colony's War Memorial (Second World War!) is to take.

Mr. H. H. Ragg will be chairman and the other three members are Major Ratu Edward Cakobau, the Rev. S. G. Cowled and Flight-Lieutenant H. M. Scott.

Their terms of reference are: “To make recommendations for a suitable com memoration of the Colony’s war effort on the understanding that the maximum contribution by the Government will be £20,000.”

Captain Dr. Pouliquen, of the French medical service, has replaced Major Lamy at Port Vila, the latter having been re called to France.

Dr. R. Catala, who has been studying colonial problems in the French South Pacific on behalf of the French Colonial Office, returned to Paris from Noumea earlier than had been anticipated. The object of his mission was to co-ordinate French imperial effort and increase economic productivity. Caledonian coffee planters are particularly hard hit by the release of formerly indentured Javanese labour, and some talk of going in for cattle raising instead. Dr. Catala is a planter in Madagascar.