Suva’S Model Market
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Officially Opened
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Nov. 6.
SUVA’S new municipal markets provided what was probably the best display of locally grown produce ever seen in Fiji when they were opened by the Mayor (Mr. Alport Barker) on Novem ber 4.
With 200 stalls, a floor space of 30,000 square feet, and a fish market in one corner, the market building is expected to go a long way towards ending the hap hazard arrangements which have been a profitable field for middlemen rather than anybody else.
The cost to the Town Council is about £26,000, the exoenditure being made possible by a Government loan at ex tremely reasonable terms.
The opening ceremony attracted a crowd of thousands.