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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 12

Fiji Fiscal Review Committee

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IN implementation of the Gov ernor’s promise on opening the Budget Session of the Fiji Legislative Council last year, a Fiscal Review Committee has now been appointed.

It will consider and recommend on the general pattern of Govern ment revenue and expenditure, hav ing regard to the Colony’s resources, the incidence and effects of taxa tion on the various branches of the community, on industry and on in centive to investment.

Chairman of the Committee is Acting Colonial Secretary (Mr. A, W.

Davidson, MBE) and the other members are Mr. A. R. Smith, MBE (Comptroller of Customs), Ratu K. K. T. Mara, Mr. J. N. Falvey, Mr. H. E. Snell, and Mr. Said Hasan.

The Committee invites the public to submit views on any matter which it would like considered.

U Miss Isabel Lowata Barrack, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W.

Barrack, of Suva, announced her engagement in June to Mr. Trevor Charles Payne, second son of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Payne, of Suva.