Detention Of Tongan
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Prisoners In Suva Gaol
A SPECIAL Bill to enable the Fiji Government to “accommodate”
Tongan prisoners in Fiji gaols will come before the next meeting of the Fiji Legislative Council.
Prison facilities in Tonga are inade quate and in recent years there have been many prison-breaks—particularly by one prisoner who usually follows up by stealing a boat- in which he makes for some of Fiji’s outer islands.
When Tonga made a request to Fiji recently that this prisoner be retained in the Suva Gaol, the Fiji Government was .willing to accede to the request, but found that it was unable to do so be cause there is no provision in Fiji law.
The new Bill will legalise the reception and detention in Suva gaol of a prisoner sentenced by a Tongan court. The Tongan government has already passed legislation to deal with the matter.
Mrs. and Mrs. R. Booker, of Manus, New Guinea, have a son, born in Mel bourne, Victoria, on April 6.