Fiji Development Plan
p. 13 · Read in the full issue
Is Summarised
Suva, Aug. 7
IF the report of the Fiji Post-war Plan ning and Development Committee, approved in 1946, is put into opera tion, it will mean the following:— New hospitals, roads, and schools will be built; Markets will be established in towns and townships: Better drinking water will be made available in more abundance; Telegraph and telephone communica tions will be improved and isolation abol ished or made more tolerable; Electric power will be provided where none now exists; Sanitation will be improved in towns and townships; New public buildings will replace those that have outlived their usefulness.
A start will be made on the building of houses for the people of the Colony; The Department of Agriculture will be placed in a better position to advise and help the man on the land.
How is the plan going? Or was it just so much wishful thinking?
The answer is in the address given by the Acting-Governor on July 18, when he opened the Council session. Speaking of the Development Plan, he said: “Signifi cant progress has been made”, and he quoted many facts to prove his words.
At the Budget session of Council, later, this year, a report stating precisely what has been achieved is to be presented.