Election Day

August 26 is Fiji Election Day

From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. July 31. riIHE three Europeans and three Indian JL members of the Legislative Council of Fiji will be elected on August 26 —except in certain islands of Lau and Lomaiviti, where voting will take place between August 21 and 28, the Govern ment vessel, Viti 11, calling to pick up the recorded votes.

When nominations closed on July 28, Mr. H. Maurice Scott was declared to be elected unopposed for the European North-Western Division seat, which he won in 1947.

In the Southern Division, which in cludes Suva, the sitting member is op posed by Mr. Alport Barker, the Mayor of Suva, who held the seat for 22 years before his defeat by Mr. A. A. Ragg in 1944. In 1947 Mr. Ragg retained the seat with a reduced majority. A third can didate is Mr. Robert Spowart, a Suva company-manager.

In the Eastern Division, Mr. F. G. Ar chibald, who won the seat in 1947, is opposed by the former holder, Mr. H.

B. Gibson, chairman of the Labasa Town Board.

To date, there has been nothing to in dicate any marked European interest in the election, but for weeks the Indian electorates have been in a state of fe verish activity.

The Indian Southern Division seat is being contested by the holder, Mr.

Vishnu Deo, and Mr. Hari Charan, a Suva barrister and solicitor.

In the North-Western Division, the holder, Mr. A. D. Patel, is opposed by Messrs. C. C. Singh and Tulsi Ram Sharma, and in the Eastern Division, Mr.

J. Madhavan, who was elected in 1947, is defending the seat against Mr. Tularam.

In Perth, WA, on July 30, a memorial service was held in Wesley Church for the 11 European missionaries and 1,100 native Christians who lost their lives during the Pacific war.