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Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 June 1948Vol. XVIII, No. 11

High Cost of Lavatories

p. 62 · Read in the full issue

In Suva

From Our Own Correspondent

Suva. May 17

rE Suva Town Board recently re ceived a document from the Director of Lands asking for £937 for the use of a piece of land in Gum ming Street on which public lavatories had been built in 1942. At that time Suva was crammed with New Zealand and American troops. The claim origin ated from the owners of the property.

To give itself time to recover, the Board held the letter .over “for further consideration;’