Committee To Revise
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Fiji’S Ten-Year Plan
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. Scot. 12.
FIJI’S Development Plan is to be re vised by a committee which, with the Governor as chairman, will deal with the original ten-year post-war develop ment and welfare plan in the light of the existing financial and economic circum stances.
The main points to be taken into con sideration are that the chance of a Lon don loan is nil; that essential construc tion materials are very scarce; and that non-productive schemes must be de ferred.
The committee, which will hold its first meeting after the September sitting of the Legislative Council, consists of the Financial Secretary; the Directors of Medical Services, Agriculture, Education, and Public Works; Mr. P. Costello (Executive Council); Messrs. A. A. Ragg, S. H. Wilson, Vishnu Deo. A. D. Patel, Ratu Edward Cakobau and Joeli Ravai (Legislative Council); Mr. H. E. Snell and Mr. P. H. Nightingale. Mr. Nightingale will also act as secretary.
Mr. C. V. Lowney, official secretary to the Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, has been spending furlough in Sydney.
He is one of the “old hands’’ of the Ter ritories —he joined the Papuan public service 24 years ago, and was private sec retary to the late Sir Hubert Murray for many years. Mr. Lowney returns to Port Moresby in December.