Boom Days Gone In Fiji
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Imported Goods Remain in Bond
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, September 13.
SHORTAGE of funds and materials is responsible for the Fiji Public Works Department employing some of its workers on a week-on-week-off system.
With the present cost of living some of the lower-paid workers are finding it dif ficult to keep their families going during the weeks-off.
Another sign of the times is the falling off in the consumption of cigarettes.
Many, which were believed to have gone stale in Fiji shops, were recently burnt.
Others are still in bond.
It is also reported that many Indian storekeepers, feeling the economic pinch, have large quantities of imported goods lying in bond.