Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 7

Few I Tem S Now

p. 31 · Read in the full issue

Page 3131

Price Controlled

In Fiji Colony

W ITH the exception of bread, ’ * flour, sharps and road pas tJ’al^P9r.t (that is, taxi and bus fares >. Fiji is now without pnce control which was first im posed. early in the war period. A lon g hst of items ranging from dalo

removed Control has been maintained on bread, flour, etc., because of Gov ernment subsidy payments that are made in respect of flour. === Captain John Ritchie of the Union Steam Ship Co., lately master of the trans-Pacific cargo vessel Waitomo, retired in February aged 63.

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