Civil Service Staff
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Shortages In Fiji
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. August 2.
FIJI’S Medical Department is short of nine officers in an establishment of 29. No replacements can be secured and some communities will soon lose their medical officers.
The Agriculture Department has seven vacancies in a total of 15 executive posts.
These examples of the Colony’s chronic Civil Service manpower shortage were quoted by the Governor (Sir Brian Free ston) in his address to the Legislative Council recently.
After pointing out that the market for
highly and expensively-trained officers was likely to remain a sellers’ market, the Governor said that, at his request, the Secretary of State for the Colonies would send a salaries-commissioner to investi gate the situation in Fiji and recommend such regrading of salaries and conditions as would enable this Colony to compete with others in recruiting and retaining men of the calibre required.
Ratu Mara, a Fijian chief who is a student 'at Oxford University, has graduated as Bachelor of Arts, Ratu Mara, who is a son of Ratu Tevita Uluila keba and a nephew of Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, is shortly to take the Adminis trative Service course at Oxford,