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Fiji’S Reluctant
Rehabilitation
Of Exservicemen
FUTURE rehabilitation policy covering service in World War II and in Malaya will be dis cussed at a suitable opportunity by the new Legislative Council of Fiji.
The old Council’s Standing Com mittee on Finance last July re fused to sanction further funds to wards rehabilitation loans, declar ing that in its opinion the necessity no longer existed, although a num ber of beneficiaries under the scheme were left with houses or other undertakings partly com pleted and with no funds to com plete them.
The Governor, on that occasion,
provided by special warrant the sum of £5,000 to meet requirements, and announced that a further £12,000 would probably be required to meet existing commitments during the current year. The Governor has also, more recently, made an in terim grant of £l,OOO to provide tools for servicemen returning from Malaya.
The matter is now one of urgency and it appears that the new Legis lative Council will have to decide on a policy towards the rehabilita tion of troops from Malaya, the first of whom were sent overseas two years ago.
T[ Mr. R. N. Sanders, a former veterinary officer in Fiji, has been appointed Deputy Director of Veter inary Services in Uganda.
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Travellers on the September-October Bulolo from Sydney included (top) Mr. and Mrs. E. Kriewaldt, of Port Moresby; and (bottom) Mrs. B. Flossman and her yonng son who were joining Mr. Flossman In Port Moresby.
Photo by Papuan Prints.