The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 7

Suva's New £15,000 Museum

p. 121 · Read in the full issue

Fiji is to have a new museum building, estimated to cost £15,000.

It is expected to be completed before the end of this year on a site near the boundary of the Suva Botanical Gardens and Govern ment House grounds. Mr. R. A.

Derrick, who is to be Curator of the Museum, is now on leave prior to retiring from the post of Super visor of Technical Services.

David Paasad, 35, ship’s greaser, of Fiji, was sentenced to six months gaol, pending deportation, in Syd ney in January on a charge of being a prohibited immigrant. He has a wife and child in Sydney.