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Plans for Lautoka

Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA. April 21.

LAUTOKA, Fiji’s second largest town and, outwardly, one of the dreariest places in the Islands, may develop Into the “most beautiful and best-planned centre in the Colony.”

This, at least, is the hope of the chair man of the Lautoka Town Board (Mr.

C. A. Adams), who has proclaimed: “Lautoka can be made the garden city of the Pacific, and the Town Board’s In tention is to make it so!”

Captain V. H. Gilchrist, a well-known identity from the Morobe (New Guinea) goldfields in pre-war days, and a member of the NGVR, recently arrived in Sydney from Japan, where he is attached to the BCOF. He travelled via New Zealand, where he spent some time on holiday. He expects shortly to return to Japan where he will serve another term with the Oc cupation Forces.