Proposed Rise In Fiji
pp. 34-36 · Read in the full issue
Civil Service Pay
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, April 20.
IT is rumoured that the Fiji Govern ment is dallying with the idea of a 10 per cent, boost in Civil service salaries Meanwhile the cost of living is still climbing majestically; price control is working effectively only up to a point (but even controlled prices rise almost continuously in the face of overseas pressure); the prices of uncontrolled es sentials are out of sight when compared with the pre-war level; and one of the economic effects of the shelving of Fiji’s Ten-Year Plan is that there have been scores of Public Works dismissals.
Mr. S. Wentworth Jackson (Stan), Sydney optometrist, will make a return professional visit to Papua—the first since 1937—in July next. He will be located at the Papua Hotel, in Port Moresby. Any enquiries may be made of Mr. Reg. Eginton. z