Automatic Telephone
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Exchange For Suva
THE Secretary of State for the Colonies has approved a revised scheme, cost ing £170,000, for an automatic tele phone exchange for Suva, Fiji, and orders will now be placed in the United Kingdom for the necessary equipment.
While he was in the United Kingdom recently on leave, the Government Archi tect, Mr. C. N. Nettleton, discussed plans for the new exchange building with ex perts in the automatic telephone field.
The Rev. F, A. Rowley, who has been in charge of the Melanesian Mission boys’ school at Vuneas, BSI, is at present in England on furlough.
Mr and Mrs. J. O. Higgins left Sydney on July 24 for the North Borneo oilfields Mr. Higgins, a leading oil companies’ executive, was stationed in Papua when drilling commenced there in the ’thirties, and he has made various official visits to the Territory since drilling was resumed after the war.
Arrangements are being made for a representative of the United Kingdom firm of Wilton & Bell to go to Fiji shortly to advise on the schemes for the Lautoka wharf and an important slipway at Suva, which are included in the Colony’s Development Plan.