Mayor of Suv
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First Indian Deputy Mayor of Suv
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Dec. 17
rR the first tme an Indian h been appointed Deputy May of Suva.
Mr. Edward M. Grant has su ceeded to the post left vacant November when Mr. D. M.
McFarlane took over as Mayor fro Sir Alport Barker.
Mr. Grant, who was first electi to the Suva Town Council in 194 is the son of Mr, John Grant, MB with whom he is associated in tl operation of the Grant cinema i] terests in Viti Levu, (The Lilac Suva is their best-known theatn Since the re-establishment of £ elected council for Suva, after mai years of control by a Governmen nominated Town Board, the coun< has consisted of three European ai three Indian elected members ai two members appointed by t] Governor to represent minority i terests.
The older European people, wl remember the days when Suva w a European town with a Fiju flavour, have suddenly realised tl inevitable consequences of outii the nominated Town Board systei which many wished to do. Th interpret the new Deputy-Mayor appointment as the writing on tl wall and that, in due course, the will be an Indian Mayor of Suv And no amount of European dismi is going to stop it.
In the meantime Mr. Grant’s fir public duty was to welcome the ne Commissioner for the Governme: of India in Fiji (Mr. Aneel Kumi Sen) at Laucala Bay Airport ( December 15.