Legco

Fiji Election Results

Few Changes in New Legco

From Our Own Correspondent

Suva, Aug. 30.

VOTING for members to the Legislative Council of Fiji was completed in the main centres on August 29. Earlier, Government vessels had made calls at all outer islands recording votes under super vision of the District Commissioners.

Mr. J. N. Falvey, who was elected as European representative, Southern Division, is the only new European elected member. He is 35, and a New Zealand lawyer. He was commissioned in the New Zealand Army in 1939 and appointed to the Colonial Service the following year and posted to Fiji. He served with the Fiji Military Forces and was later transferred to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. From there he transferred to the Fiji Secretariat as an Administrative Officer, later

becoming a District Officer, Southern Division.

At the end of the war he resumed law studies, gaining his Bachelor of Laws degree. He joined the Suva legal firm of Cromptons in 1949, and is now a partner. He married Miss Margaret Weatherby of Suva; they have five children.

Full Election Results

Southern Division

European

J. N. Falvey 48 ?

J. B. Turner 238 C. S. Phillips 89

Indian

Vishnu Deo 2,365 Hari Charan 1,288 Hari Charan Akheel 12

Eastern Division

European

H. B. Gibson 227

F. G. Archibald 210 W. E. Willoughby-Tottenham . .. 20

Indian

Madhavan 8801 Odin Ramrakha 700

North-Western Division

European

H. M. Scott elected unopposed.

Indian

Ayodhya Prasad 2,04'., A. D. Patel 1,91!

Tulsi Ram Sharma 280 Babubhai Patel 54 Hari Shanker 1*

Mr. J. N. Falvey.