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NZ Official Concludes Survey

MR. H. E. MOSTON, formerly secretary of the New Zealand Labour Depart ment, who has been in Fiji for the last three months, on a special mission planned by the Fijian Government, re turned to Wellington, at the end of October.

His task was to inquire into factory conditions in Fiji and bring them into line with those in other countries, es pecially in respect to safety precautions and conditions likely to contribute to ill health.

Mr. Moston, said that there was not, fundamentally, anything seriously amiss in the conduct of factories in Fiji. As the result of contact with American and other troops during the war, there had been some requests for better conditions from Fijian and Indian workers.

The three big industries in the group were sugar growing and refining, con trolled by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Mr. Moston considered that this firm treated its employees very well —the copra industry and gold mining.

It is anticipated that Mr. Carl Swen son, one of the executives of Messrs. A.

B. Donald & Co. in Papeete, will be ap pointed Consul for Sweden in Tahiti. At present the British Consul at Papeete acts as Consul for the Kingdom of Sweden.

Special French distinctions were re cently conferred upon the following for long and good service in French Oceania: Mile. Emilie Debrie, director of the Protestant school at Uturoa; Brother Jean Talvat, director of the Catholic Boys School in Papeete; and M. Taataroa Maoni, director of the Public School at Mataiea.