Fiji Escapes Drastic
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Import Cuts
Suva, Oct. 27
FIJI will not suffer such severe re strictions of imports, from the sterling area, as was feared when the currency and economic crisis first developed in Great Britain.
It has been officially announced that drastic restrictions will not be placed upon imports which are regarded as essential for the purpose of maintaining production (known in Fiji as ‘‘incentive goods”), provided that they originate in the sterling area.
At the same time, imports will be held down to the minimum of essential re quirements by the import licence system.
Mr Walter Edwin Vivish, whp was born’in London 83 years ago, died in Tahiti in October. He arrivedm Tahiti by the American brigantine Tahiti in 1885 and he had a large family. It is recalled that the ‘‘Tahiti,” loaded with Gilbertese, bound for Peruvian planta tions, turned turtle in a cyclone with heavy loss of life.