Appointments
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Fiji Executive Council
New Procedure in Next Appointments
SUVA, July 23.
TWO provisional appointments to the Executive Council of Fiji—those of Ratu George Tuisawau and Mr. K. B.
Singh, OBE—will end on July 28.
Before making recommendations to the King for the filling of the vacancies, the Governor (Sir Brian Freeston) is invit ing the five Fijian unofficial members of the Legislative Council and the five Indian members each to put forward one of their own numbers as a candidate for the Executive Council. The same pro cedure will be adopted in the case of the European members when a European vacancy occurs in the Executive Council.
The announcement of this new pro cedure makeG it clear, however, that it does not confer an absolute right of choice by the unofficial members of the Legislative Council, and that the dis cretion vested in the Governor to submit to the Secretary of State for the Colonies the names of such persons as he thinks suitable for appointment to the Executive Council remains unimpaired.
M. Henri Bonafous, a former councillor of the Noumea Municipal Council, died recently in Noumea at the age of 73. He had lived in New Caledonia since 1900.