Dismissal of Suva
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PWD Men First Effect of Scrapping of Development Plan
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, April 12.
PUBLIC Works Department employees —officially numbering “approxi mately 150,” unofficially about 170— at the Department’s big Suva establish ment at Walu Bay, Suva, have been stood down (otherwise dismissed) in the first drastic move in the retrenchment campaign which has followed the realign ment of Fiji’s Ten-Year Development Plan announced by the Governor (Sir Brian Freeston) on March 19.
The men affected were mostly engaged in building trades and were those with the shortest terms of service.
No indication has yet been given as to how far retrenchment may go.