Ovfrcrowded Suva

Housing shortage Alarms Town Board

OVERCROWDING in dwelling houses in Suva is causing the Suva Town Board much concern.

At a meeting in March, the Board agreed that, in view of the gravity of the housing position it did not approve— except in cases of extreme urgency—the issue of any closing orders on dwellings in Suva.

Another motion which was passed unani mously, read: “That this Town Board draws the attention of Government to the

grave dan £ er to public health resulting from the i nflux of people who have little or no legitimate business in Suva. This amounts to a state of emergency; and the Board asks for the serious and, in deed, immediate attention of Government to means of removing the evil.” = Mr. H. S. Bennett, Australian Consul in New Caledonia, was a passenger on the flying-boat Coriolanus which passed through Brisbane recently. He said he would be glad to get back into light clothing and was surprised to find Aus tralian’s sticking to heavy garb in such humidity. He attended the South Seas Conference in Canberra in January